On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:31:23PM -0700, George Davidovich wrote: >As I understand it, "A0" represents the non-breaking space character. >Mutt displays the message correctly, but in vim, the character appears >as a pipe symbol. And, as you can tell, there's a whole lot of them. > >My questions, then, are: > > 1. Is there a mutt configuration setting I'm missing that causes vim > to get the A0 character? Maybe this behaviour is a feature? ;-) > > 2. As a workaround, how do I search/replace non-printable characters > in vim?
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace Replace charactrs with characters within the entire file :%s/charactrs/characters/ As far as replacing non-printable chars... I just use hexedit. Sounds like you are trying to view a binary within vi/vim. -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
