On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:41:49PM -0500, Eben King wrote:
> Something -- I think Google Groups -- is replacing the second space after a
> sentence as well as the final space in a time (between H:MM and [ap]m) with
> 0xa0 = 0240 which is presumably a non-breakable space in some encoding.
> I'd
> like to replace these with everyday spaces. I've got a "tr" command that
> does it ("| tr '\240' ' '") but what I don't know is how to make vim pipe
> the whole document through that, and replace all text with what comes out.
>
> :%something|tr '\240' ' '
>
> is as far as I've got. Anyone?
>
BTW, Eben, your system clock is *waaay* off. Note the date above: 17
March. I couldn't figure out why your thread was sorting at the bottom
of my mailreader. That was why.
Paul
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