In a custom 'statusline', items %b or %B mean the current character, not
necessarily the current byte. For instance, if 'encoding' is UTF-8, the
status line string
U+%04B
will display the Unicode codepoint under the cursor according to the
usual conventions: U+ 4 hex digits in the BMP (U+0000 to U+FFFF), or U+
as many hex digits as necessary (normally 5 or 6) outside the BMP (i.e.
U+10000 and higher — the Unicode Consortium currently allows codepoints
up to U+10FFFD, where U+F0000 and higher, among others, are "for private
use"; Vim allows codepoints up to U+7FFFFFFF). Similarly with lowercase
b but in decimal (I just checked them both).
See the attached proposed patch to options.txt. This patch was
constructed according to the "traditional Vim" patching conventions (to
apply it, start at the parent of runtime/ src/ etc., patch using -p0,
and non-unified context diff) rather than "Mercurial" patching
conventions (start at the same point but patch using -p1, and unified
context diff).
I *think* that transmission via email will have converted all ends of
lines to "dos-style" (CR+LF rather than my usual "unix-style" LF) but
I'm not 100% sure.
Best regards,
Tony.
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*** ../vim73/runtime/doc/options.txt 2011-02-09 21:05:33.000000000 +0100
--- runtime/doc/options.txt 2011-02-10 05:45:09.000000000 +0100
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*** 1,4 ****
! *options.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2011 Jan 30
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
--- 1,4 ----
! *options.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2011 Feb 10
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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*** 6554,6560 ****
k S Value of "b:keymap_name" or 'keymap' when |:lmap| mappings are
being used: "<keymap>"
n N Buffer number.
! b N Value of byte under cursor.
B N As above, in hexadecimal.
o N Byte number in file of byte under cursor, first byte is 1.
Mnemonic: Offset from start of file (with one added)
--- 6554,6560 ----
k S Value of "b:keymap_name" or 'keymap' when |:lmap| mappings are
being used: "<keymap>"
n N Buffer number.
! b N Value of character under cursor.
B N As above, in hexadecimal.
o N Byte number in file of byte under cursor, first byte is 1.
Mnemonic: Offset from start of file (with one added)
