Nobody seems to have replied to this, so please excuse
me resubmitting it. I've still not found a solution for this,
qnd would appreciate some help. Given the Vim Jobs List
thread, I'm not the only person trying to use vim effectively
on Windows :-)
Thank you,
Hugh
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 12:08:23 +0100 (WEST)
From: Hugh Sasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Vim Help list <[email protected]>
Subject: editing WinXP text files - multibyte?
If, on WinXP, I do
regedit /e regfile.reg
I get a file with the contents of the registry. However, in my Gvim
(6.4) I see nulls for every other character (^@), which agrees with
remarks about ucs-2le in the docs. This is particularly
unpleasant to read and edit. Notepad will display it to read, but
for editing I'd rather use gvim. Both
:he utf-16 | he ucs2-le
turn up nothing, and the utf-8 things don't seem relevant. :he
encoding tells me I can't use that to edit a file that has loaded
incorrectly, so I'll have to re-open the file. But that means
right-clicking the file to access vim won't work.
I think I'm doing this the hard way. Could someone point me at the
right part of the docs, please?
Thank you,
Hugh
