Excerpts from Christian Brabandt's message of Tue Oct 02 21:29:28 +0200 2012: > > Even notepad can do things Vim can't: Open registry dump files! > Why can't Vim? Hmm you're right. You could write a decode and use it (like showing hexdumps ..) - still I use bvi whenever I want to edit binary files.
Try Win + R -> "regedit" click on any folder -> File export -> save as .reg file. Then you have a binary format which you can open in Vim but which is unreadable for humans. Notepad decodes it. I hope nobody got me wrong - I love Vim - and almost all the time half of my processes are running Vim instances .. Still there is a point when you hit a "frontier" - when tools are missing. Eg I like the WYSIWYG behaviour of lyx which Vim will never provide (unless a lot of development takes place) which is why I want to say: think about learning curves as much as you want - but don't miss domain specific solutions beside Vim if appropriate. Marc Weber -- 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
