Re: [Groff] Vim/formatting question (WordPerfect files)

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> Words are separated by a single character that displays
> in vim as a (blue) couple of characters: ( ~@ ) and there
> are other characters showing up as ( ^U, ^^, ^@, ) etc.
> I know how to do regular expression search and replace for
> control characters like ^U, but this ~@ stuff is something
> I don't know how to specify in a search string.

Put the cursor on any character and type

  :ascii

this will give you the codes in decimal, hex, and octal.
~@ is decimal 128, you can enter this as ctrl-v 1 2 8
or as address@hidden