12-02-2016
Hidden characters when pasting in vi/vim
Hello everyone.
When I copy some configuration settings string from MS_Word to putty from my personal pc to a remote machine, it appears that I copy some hidden symbols, which at first, cannot be seen and appear as hidden. Some java programs did not start, and after investigation I found that:
- After I use cat -vt config.file hidden symbol is revealed. In vi mode, I tried using :set list with no success, so in vi mode everything appears as copied normally but the hidden symbol cannot be seen.
Is there a way to see directly in vi, if I have copied such hidden symbols? Maybe I should change my putty's font?
Additional info
I am using W10 with standard English language settings. Strange thing is that I copy the same text to a notepad++ and with an ansi encoding, it does not get detected also, when I change it to utf-8, the hidden symbol appears.
Thanks in advance for everyone`s time and attention.
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VIMTUTOR(1) General Commands Manual VIMTUTOR(1)
NAME
vimtutor - the Vim tutor
SYNOPSIS
vimtutor [-g] [language]
DESCRIPTION
Vimtutor starts the Vim tutor. It copies the tutor file first, so that it can be modified without changing the original file.
The Vimtutor is useful for people that want to learn their first Vim commands.
The optional argument -g starts vimtutor with gvim rather than vim, if the GUI version of vim is available, or falls back to Vim if gvim is
not found.
The optional [language] argument is the two-letter name of a language, like "it" or "es". If the [language] argument is missing, the lan-
guage of the current locale will be used. If a tutor in this language is available, it will be used. Otherwise the English version will
be used.
Vim is always started in Vi compatible mode.
FILES
/usr/share/vim/vim72/tutor/tutor[.language]
The Vimtutor text file(s).
/usr/share/vim/vim72/tutor/tutor.vim
The Vim script used to copy the Vimtutor text file.
AUTHOR
The Vimtutor was originally written for Vi by Michael C. Pierce and Robert K. Ware, Colorado School of Mines using ideas supplied by
Charles Smith, Colorado State University. E-mail: bware@mines.colorado.edu.
It was modified for Vim by Bram Moolenaar. For the names of the translators see the tutor files.
SEE ALSO
vim(1)
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