> Words are separated by a single character that displays > in vim as a (blue) couple of characters: ( ~@ ) and there > are other characters showing up as ( ^U, ^^, ^@, ) etc. > I know how to do regular expression search and replace for > control characters like ^U, but this ~@ stuff is something > I don't know how to specify in a search string.
Put the cursor on any character and type :ascii this will give you the codes in decimal, hex, and octal. ~@ is decimal 128, you can enter this as ctrl-v 1 2 8 or as [EMAIL PROTECTED]