> something's up with my vi(m) editor in my mac pro Terminal app (Mac OS
> Catalina) and it's driving me insane.
>
> It happens when I make a new file, say a python function in which I might
> write from the command line:
>
> $vim function.py
>
> def function(variable):
>
> pass
>
> then I type :wq to save it and exit.
>
> Next time I open it I'll see each letter bracketed by ^@, as in:
>
> ^@d^@^@e^@^@f^@ ^@f^@^@u^@^@n... you get the idea.
>
>
> Interestingly, if I add text to an existing file, save it and close
> it, the issue isn't there next time I open it. It seems to happen only
> when I make a fresh file and with vim 8.1.2292 as well as 8.2.1719.
>
>
> Any help to solve this would be much appreciated.
Check the 'fileencoding' and 'encoding'. I suspect one of them is
utf-16. Perhaps a plugin sets 'fileencoding' for this filetype, check
with:
verbose set fileencoding?
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