On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 01:26:32PM -0700, Rahul wrote: > Is there a convenient way to edit /etc/motd (or for that matter any > other file that has color codes / multibyte characters in it)? The > usual problem is that many if the file has a color code (say, > ^[[33m^[[1m ) then this occupies multiple characters in the editor but > zero characters when finally displayed. Hence it is hard to get the > alignment right without lots of trial and error. For an example see > below. > > I was wondering if vim had a smart way of dealing with this?!
You could use the new conceal support in Vim 7.3. I've not yet updated so I can't give you any examples. Maybe [1] helps. [1]: http://b4winckler.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/using-the-conceal-vim-feature-with-latex/ Hope this helps, Simon -- + privacy is necessary + using gnupg http://gnupg.org + public key id: 0x92FEFDB7E44C32F9
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