Hide non printable characters in vim
- by knittl
Vim shows non-printable characters prefixed with a ^ (for instance ^@ for a NUL byte).
I have a column based file containing both printable and non-printable characters which is difficult to read, since each non-printable character shifts all remaining columns one character to the right.
Is there a way to hide non-printable characters or simply display a placeholder char instead? I also don't mind having every character be represented by two characters.