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I am experimenting with a near-ASCII file format containing text messages and binary markers (high bit set). Vim is surprisingly useful: it will display files in a reasonable-for-debugging way by displaying hex values for high characters. It preserves these during editing, and will even allow you to enter non-ascii characters:
In Insert mode,
CTRL-V x AB
will insert 0xAB. o will similarly take 3 octal digits. Just numbers for decimal digits.
2023-07-07 · 3 days ago · 👍 ResetReboot
Thanks for this great tip!
2023-07-09 · 1 day ago