must make sure that $VIMRUNTIME is set to where the other Vim files are,
when they are not in the same location as the compressed "doc" directory.  See
|$VIMRUNTIME|.

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Hex editing					*hex-editing* *using-xxd*

See section |23.3| of the user manual.

If one has a particular extension that one uses for binary files (such as exe,
bin, etc), you may find it helpful to automate the process with the following
bit of autocmds for your |init.vim|.  Change that "*.bin" to whatever
comma-separated list of extension(s) you find yourself wanting to edit: >

	" vim -b : edit binary using xxd-format!
	augroup Binary
	  autocmd!
	  autocmd BufReadPre  *.bin set binary
	  autocmd BufReadPost *.bin
	    \ if &binary
	    \ |   execute "silent %!xxd -c 32"
	    \ |   set filetype=xxd
	    \ |   redraw
	    \ | endif
	  autocmd BufWritePre *.bin
	    \ if &binary
	    \ |   let s:view = winsaveview()
	    \ |   execute "silent %!xxd -r -c 32"
	    \ | endif
	  autocmd BufWritePost *.bin
	    \ if &binary
	    \ |   execute "silent %!xxd -c 32"
	    \ |   set nomodified
	    \ |   call winrestview(s:view)
	    \ |   redraw
	    \ | endif
	augroup END

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Using <> notation in autocommands			*autocmd-<>*

The <> notation is not recognized in the argument of an :autocmd.  To avoid
having to use special characters, you could use a self-destroying mapping to
get the <> notation and then call the mapping from the autocmd.  Example:

						*map-self-destroy*  >
 " This is for automatically adding the name of the file to the menu list.
 " It uses a self-destroying mapping!
 " 1. use a line in the buffer to convert the 'dots' in the file name to \.
 " 2. store that in register '"'
 " 3. add that name to the Buffers menu list
 " WARNING: this does have some side effects, like overwriting the
 " current register contents and removing any mapping for the "i" command.
 "
 autocmd BufNewFile,BufReadPre * nmap i :nunmap i<CR>O<C-R>%<Esc>:.g/\./s/\./\\./g<CR>0"9y$u:menu Buffers.<C-R>9 :buffer <C-R>%<C-V><CR><CR>
 autocmd BufNewFile,BufReadPre * normal i

Another method, perhaps better, is to use the ":execute" command.  In the
string you can use the <> notation by preceding it with a backslash.  Don't
forget to double the number of existing backslashes and put a backslash before
'"'.
>
  autocmd BufNewFile,BufReadPre * exe "normal O\<C-R>%\<Esc>:.g/\\./s/\\./\\\\./g\<CR>0\"9y$u:menu Buffers.\<C-R>9 :buffer \<C-R>%\<C-V>\<CR>\<CR>"

For a real buffer menu, user functions should be used (see |:function|), but
then the <>