On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Wallace Babb wrote:

(not sure if this should be in Vim_use instead, but anyway)

It might be a good idea to post this there, as well.

say I want the form feed (^L) character to be displayed as a row of dashes (-----).
[...]
Is this possible (without modifying the actual VIM source)?

As far as I know it is not possible to do exactly what you want without modifying the source, but if you're willing to visually replace it with a *single* character, you could use the conceal syntax feature. For example:

    :syntax match FormFeed "^L" conceal cchar=-
    :set conceallevel=1

In the above example, ^L is a literal control-l inserted by typing control-v then control-l.

- Christian

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