James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > 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. ??
there is also a prog called bvi that looks more like a conventional hex editor http://bvi.sourceforge.net/ Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
