On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 07:26:31AM +1000, Dave Horsfall <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can see heaps of 3rd-party stuff out there, but is there an "official" > one? > > I have a file with some binary stuff in it (8-bit accents, perhaps?) and > "vi" just spits the dummy at that point and I want to search down further. > > Thanks. > > -- Dave You could try vim. It handles binary files. You might want to do this in vim before opening the file: :setlocal binary But that should only be needed for real binary files, not just files with some 8-bit characters. For files in utf8 or unicode, it usually just autodetects that. For other 8-bit character sets, it's best if you tell vim what character set it is. But /usr/bin/vi on macOS is actually an old vim, but maybe it's in an unhelpfully strict vi-compatibility mode when run as "vi" rather than "vim". cheers, raf
