Re: Console vim beeps with file beeper.txt

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:46 PM, 'Suresh Govindachar' via vim_use <vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hello,

I copied some lines from a web-page and pasted them into console vim. Now when I scroll (move cursor with k or l or do <ctrl-F> or <ctrl-b>), vim beeps.

To reproduce, use attached beeper.txt.  Also, try yanking the lines in beeper.txt and pasting them -- I hear beeps during the paste.

What's causing this and how to get rid of it?

It's the usual suspect: CP1252 (Windows) encoding.  The character in front of each list item is being represented by 8-bit char 0x95, which is equivalent to \U2022 - BULLET.  Probably, your terminal isn't dealing well with a character it's not expecting to encounter.

You can edit the file properly by doing:

:e ++enc=cp1252 beeper.txt

After that, you can fix the encoding (to UTF-8, for example) with:

:se fenc=utf8

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Best,

Ben

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