Vim null character

Community portal. To do. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Newlines and nulls in Vim script. Edit source History Talk 0. Please review this tip: This tip was imported from vim. You might clean up comments or merge similar tips.

Kamlet writes: hmmmm, my ascii chart seems to include the null character Some don't even allow characters with the high bit set. Try emacs. Thanks in advance to any pointers. Not sure this is what your after, but if you do a :set list in vi, you will see non-printable charcters such as tabs. This is the end. Bill nrs sends Bill Reed This won't work because the output of cat -v is ambiguous. A better tool to use for this purpose is od, although the output is not the most useful for locating the null character in the file.

The SunOS 4. The man pages for those programs don't offer any encouragement. Grep was built from the ed regular expression code, and the ed manpage says ed discards null characters when it reads an input file. NULL character with vi. Doing a search and replace on newlines under Vi. Solaris 2. Show 2 more comments. Coffee and Code Coffee and Code 8 8 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

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