Enter NULL characters in vi...

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:35:25PM +0000, Steve Flynn wrote:
> 	Been working on some code to clean up UTF16 encoded files and I find
> myself needing to create a test file with some NULLs embedded within it.
> 
> 	I had hoped that (in vi) Ctrl-V followed by an @ would do the trick but
> it seems not.

This works for me:

  start vim nulls.txt
  press i to enter insert mode
  type "null: ["
  press ctrl-v
  press ctrl-@
  type "]"
  hit esc
  type ":wq"
  press enter
  run xxd nulls.txt to verify:

    0000000: 6e75 6c6c 3a20 5b00 5d0a                 null: [.].

The character between [ and ] has code 0x00, as requested.

Regards,
Marius Gedminas
-- 
9. Okay, then, what do you think about "syntactic noise" in config files?

!@#@!#(#%^!%$@#';,!@# 
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