On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:46 PM, 'Suresh Govindachar' via vim_use < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello, > > I copied some lines from a web-page and pasted them into console vim. Now > when I scroll (move cursor with k or l or do <ctrl-F> or <ctrl-b>), vim > beeps. > > To reproduce, use attached beeper.txt. Also, try yanking the lines in > beeper.txt and pasting them -- I hear beeps during the paste. > > What's causing this and how to get rid of it? > It's the usual suspect: CP1252 (Windows) encoding. The character in front of each list item is being represented by 8-bit char 0x95, which is equivalent to \U2022 - BULLET. Probably, your terminal isn't dealing well with a character it's not expecting to encounter. You can edit the file properly by doing: :e ++enc=cp1252 beeper.txt After that, you can fix the encoding (to UTF-8, for example) with: :se fenc=utf8 -- Best, Ben -- -- 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.
