Background: I write documents in MS Word, but my target format is HTML.
After I do a *Save as*//"Web Page (filtered)", I can use global replaces
to get rid of most of the cruft that Word generates, but I have a
problem with non-ASCII characters: cent sign, circle-r, dash, nbsp, etc.
None of these looks like themselves when I edit the file with vim in a
cygwin Terminal window. I can search for [^ -~^t] to find the non-ASCII
characters, then go to the original word document to find out what the
correct character is. If I had only a few of these, that would be
enough. But in a longer document, a given non-ASCII can occur hundreds
of times. So once I've found (e.g.) an emdash, I want to replace _all_
occurrences with "—". But I have no way of representing the
character I want to replace on the command line.
I usually bring up the HTML file in Emacs so I can tell it to do a
replace all on the character. I know emacs sort-of, but every time I
want to do anything more than basic editing I have to look up the
commands I want with ^hapropos. Is there a way to do this in vim without
getting into emacs.
Note: ^t is what a tab character looks like on the vim command line.
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