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Vim: command to show all non-printable chars.

Vim 7.1

Hi:
Suppose I'm editing a file with vim. The file, a text file, contains line terninators which are line feeds (LF= 0x0a). It could also contain horizontal tabs (HT= 0x09) and some more non-printable chars (in fact, it could be corrupt and contain anything). Will vim let me see the location within the text of those chars (chars = characters) and what each of them is? I know there are such things as hexdump and the like but it would be nice for me to stay within the vim session. Thanks for reading.

Thanks, chrism01 for your links.

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After receiving chrism01's links, I did :help in vim. In the first screenfuls you'll see a list of files: usr_NN.txt, NN=01,02,... Then [s]locate any of these files. Within the directory pointed to by locate, grep -irl "non-printable cha" *. In my box, I found options.txt (part of Vim's user manual), with some useful info on non-printable chars stuff.