Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Re: Changing encoding of an already loaded buffer

On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 20:49, Gabriele F <gbfv@tiscali.it> wrote:
>
> The actual "correct" way to "change" the encoding of a buffer is, I
> believe, with the "++enc" option, added either to :e (e.g. `:e
> ++enc=utf8`) or several similar commands such as indeed :vi (`:vi
> ++enc=utf8`).

Thanks, I didn't know about that. It's more convenient than changing
the "fileencodings".

> However I couldn't find a way to make it work with a file-less buffer,
> such as your pipe example:

Right. The only way I've found is to use a temporary file.
Incidentally, the zsh shell makes that easy:
% gvim -f =(man llseek)

Regards,
Albert.

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