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apporc
apporc

Reputation: 982

What are those many '@' characters seen in a log file from vim?

I have one log file, there are many @ characters in it when viewing with vim 7.4.160 on centos. But no matter cat or cat -A doesn't show these characters.

Those @ characters are at the beginning of some empty lines(which are in fact no real lines, because vim doesn't give them line numbers.) When i use key j or k to move between them, the cursor will just move like those lines are not there.

I doubt whether it is some file hole there, or vim's typesetting.

The 

[INFO 2016-07-05 18:26:08 xxxx] xxx
@
@
@
[INFO 2016-07-05 18:26:08 xxxx] xxx

Upvotes: 0

Views: 47

Answers (2)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196896

From :help window-contents:

If the last line in a window doesn't fit, Vim will indicate this with a '@' in
the first column of the last lines in the window, like this:

    +-----------------------+
    |first line             |
    |second line            |
    |@                      |
    |@                      |
    +-----------------------+

Thus the '@' lines indicate that there is a line that doesn't fit in the
window.

You can play with :help 'display' if you don't want those @s.

Upvotes: 1

SibiCoder
SibiCoder

Reputation: 1496

These characters indicate that there are more content in the file below the screen.

Upvotes: 0

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