Tip #67: Ascii Value

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created:		May 7, 2001 5:56		complexity:		intermediate
author:		Erhan		as of Vim:		5.7

Sometimes we, the programmers, need the value of a character, don't we? You can learn the ascii value of a character by pressing g and a keys.(ga)! It displays the value in dec, hex and octal...

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[email protected], May 9, 2001 6:35

You can also add options to the statusline option to show what the ascii value of the character under the cursor is. set statusline=%<%f%h%m%r%=%b 0x%B %l,%c%V %P ^^^^^^^^ The underlined part is what does it.

[email protected], May 9, 2001 22:29

The mnemonic I use to remember ga is "get ascii" but I guess that is an obvious one...

[email protected], June 5, 2001 5:00

doesn't work with multibyte editing :-(

Alexey Marinichev, June 7, 2001 14:57

For multibyte use g8.

[email protected], August 30, 2006 3:45

all i want is a backwards 3, where the 3 is facing the other way.....




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