Carl Lowenstein wrote: > Is there some way to make VIM display non-ASCII characters as > something distinguishable. Like octal or hex or even the way that > "cat -v" does? > > I know, ":1G!Gcat -v" > > But a reversible way, similar to "set list", "set nolist" would be > nice. I have not found it in some reading of Steve Oualline's _Vi > IMproved_ book. > > The use for this is cleaning up text files that were created by > programs that insert non-ASCII characters for apostrophes and quotes > etc. >
google on vim hex mode gives some good hits. First things I saw: set display=uhex also, in command mode ga will give info about the character at the cursor position. It seems like there ought to be a way to give pure hex rather than hex mixed with unicode that I get in uhex. ?? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
