On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, I ran "fetchnews" manually and got a message from the newsserver to
that effect. Should be ok now:
eben@pc:~$ date
Sat Mar 15 12:47:58 EDT 2008
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-eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81
Your pretended fear lest error might step in is like the man who
would keep all wine out of the country lest men should be drunk.
-- Oliver Cromwell
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