[ale] hex editing in vim

[Christopher S. Adams]

as if those commands aren't enough to make me glad i use xemacs :)

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fulton Green" <me at FultonGreen.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Ben Phillips" <pynk at angband.org>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] hex editing in vim


> In a nutshell, filter your data through the xxd utility.  The command-line
> directive
>   :%!xxd
> converts a file to hex, and
>   :%!xxd -r
> converts it back. Did you try
>   :help hex
> ?
>
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 03:48:32PM -0400, Ben Phillips wrote:
> > A second ago I hit a wrong key or two in vim, and found myself in a hex
> > editor -- which wasn't at all what I meant to do, but darned if that
isn't a
> > neat feature!  Can anyone tell me what I did to invoke that?  I can't
> > remember, and I can't find any mention of it in the help.
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