On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 08:43:23AM -0700, Barry Gold wrote: > 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.
I sometimes deal with something a bit similar. For example if I want to change all the fancy "right single quote" marks from a Windows file into a plain apostrophe, "'" I use 'ga' on the first found character (the fancy quote) to see that the code is U+2019. Then I search for that, using \%u2019. Would that help? John Cordes -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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 because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
