The "Changing encoding of an already loaded buffer" thread reminds me that there are times I'd like to be able to look at a region of a file in one encoding, and another region in a different encoding. Say, tell vim everything between mark j and mark k is UTF-8 while everything between mark u and mark i is ISO-8859-1?
My current method is to write the sections to temporary files, and then open them as new buffers. Is there another, simpler way? A typical use case for for me is an mbox file, where different messages have arrived in (and are still stored in) different charsets. I can imagine as another use case, data files with messages precomposed in different encodings, something like a translations file for a program, but I don't typically deal with such. In general any sort of "multiple things presented in a single file" might trigger this: editing ar files, tar archives, disk images, etc. Elijah -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/4Cr8sq5DRzzfYm%40panix5.panix.com.