Disable dot (repeat last command) in non-english layouts in normal mode

[petRUShka]

In other-than english layout (for example in Russian) dot may be on unusual place. For example for Russian layout / key (which in English layout start search) is .. So when you want to make search and have by accident Russian layout instead of English you face dot command instead of search. Last can be pretty destructible: delete couple of lines or insert some non sense and etc.

Idea is to have an option to disable or remap . in non-english layout to avoid such unexpected and annoying behavior.

[lyokha]

This plugin is not intended to manage layouts in Normal mode in such a sophisticated way. It has such an option for Insert mode only. Basically, you can remap . in Normal mode using standard Vim's approach.

[petRUShka]

@lyokha, idea is to remap it only in case layout is non English. In English layout it is good to have ..

So this feature should depend on xkbswitch.

[lyokha]

@petRUShka, making sure that you always have an English layout when getting into Normal mode is one of the purposes of this plugin, so I do not understand exactly the reason of why you want this.

Perhaps, you want

let g:XkbSwitchNLayout = 'us'
let g:XkbSwitchILayout = 'us'

to always enter VIm with us layout. There is also keymap assistance in Normal mode to support commands like r and f. In my .vimrc I have lines

let g:XkbSwitchAssistNKeymap = 1    " for commands r and f
let g:XkbSwitchAssistSKeymap = 1    " for search lines
let g:XkbSwitchDynamicKeymap = 1
let g:XkbSwitchKeymapNames = {'ru' : 'russian-jcukenwin'}

for this.

Anyway, what you want seems to be not feasible to implement, as Vim's maps use symbols rather than keycodes, which means that map . is always the same for any keyboard layout as far as Russian dot is indistinguishable from English dot (meaning that the dot symbol is the same for both layouts).