> I'm dealing with some file formats that have data segments terminated by
> an arbitrary segment terminator (in this case '#'). Is there built-in
> functionality for dealing with situations like this?
>
> It'd be nice to be able to treat this like a 'ff'.
> ff=unix =<NL>
> ff=dos =<CR><NL>
> ff=mac =<CR>
> ff={anything-else} = custom line terminator
>
> Since that currently doesn't exist, though, is there a plugin to do
> roughly what that would accomplish?
I don't know of a plugin, but shooting from the hip, I'd be
tempted to use "tr" as a filter like xxd[1] is used for binary files:
tr '#\012' '\012#'
will swap newlines and "#" signs, which can then be reversed upon
writing to get the originals back.
-tim
[1]
:help using-xxd
for examples on setting up the autocmd entries
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