Similar apologies if this response starts from 0 assumptions :) 1: You're opening up a .m, .h, .c, .cpp, .cxx, etc. file, right? You can't open up compiled programs in MacVim (so things in /Applications aren't likely to be useful to open).
2: Do you know what Unicode is? ^@ usually indicates a NULL byte, which UTF-16 inserts to pad characters to 16 bits. If the file looks like the expected C code, but there's just ^@ in-between each character, this is what's happening. For portability, I don't recommend storing code in UTF-16; you should probably use UTF-8 or a non-unicode file format, but that's not directly related to the current issue :). You can try this, to see if it loads in utf 16: :e ++enc=utf16 path/to/file.c 3: I don't know if vim does automatic byte-order determination, so if the suggestion from #2 doesn't work (the file looks like a bunch of chinese characters with random symbols throughout), also give this a shot: :e ++enc=utf16le path/to/file.c If you determine it's in utf-16 and it loads and shows fine in vim with the above option, I think that you can have vim save it as utf-8 (so that you don't need to worry about it anymore) for you by running: :save ++enc=utf8 new/path/to/file.c On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Pete T <pturne...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hey there. > > Apologies if this is an extremely basic question, but I've begun > learning C using MacVim and I think it's brilliant. However, when I > load up programs, instead of appearing as code, it is showing up as > non-sensical (I think) letters, and @^@^@^@^@^@^ in blue. I've not > been able to find any other topic on this from what basic terms I > know. > > Any help would be wonderful. > > Thanks, > Peter. > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
