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Revision as of 06:37, 16 December 2009

Here's a simple alias to display what vim thinks a file's encoding is:

alias vimenc='vim -c '\''let $enc = &fileencoding | execute "!echo Encoding:  $enc" | q'\'''

This saves having to open vim, combining opening the file, checking the file encoding, and exiting. The alias requires a file as a parameter.

E.g.

$ vimenc ISO-8859-1.xml

Encoding: latin1

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