On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> Spake Eben King on Monday, March 17, 2008 at 04:41PM -0500:
>> 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' ' '
>
> Very close. '%' is the range for the entire file, and you just need the ex
> command to pipe something to an external program.
>
> That command is '!', so you have:
>
> :%!tr '\240' ' '
Thanks, works great.
> However, you could use vim's (ex's) builtin s///, like so:
>
> :%s/\240/ /g
vim says:
,--
| E65: Illegal back reference
| E476: Invalid command
| Hit ENTER or type command to continue
'--
Try again?
> Also, if you want to pipe a subset of a file through tr (or vim's builtn s///),
> you can enter visual mode (with "v"), select lines using the arrow keys,
> and type ':!tr a-z A-Z'. The selected portion of the text will be piped through
> 'tr'. Nifty, eh?
Note to those playing along at home: leave the "'<,'>" it insert after the
colon. Otherwise it'll just change the first line. Baby steps on the path
to vi guru-hood. Thanks.
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