home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.editors:1790 comp.unix.questions:9235
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!ericom!eos.ericsson.se!etxmesa
- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: vi: how does one deal with characters like \331 ?
- Keywords: vi,octaln
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.080447.4582@ericsson.se>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 08:04:47 GMT
- References: <BrHw1K.EDH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Jul16.192524.29230@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Jul20.171152.28727@Synopsys.Com>
- Sender: news@ericsson.se
- Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- Lines: 28
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eos6c02.ericsson.se
-
- In article <1992Jul20.171152.28727@Synopsys.Com>,
- wyle@synopsys.com (Mitch Wyle) writes:
- |> In <1992Jul16.192524.29230@news.eng.convex.com>
- |> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
- |>
- |> >:In vi, how do you enter a character like \331 into a search pattern?
- |> >
- |> >Under most implementations, you don't, since most versions can't
- |> >edit 8-bit files anyway.
- |>
- |> > Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
- |>
- |> :verssion
- |> Version SVR3.1
- |> (in sun-os) does edit 8-bit chars,
-
- In that case search for the character Eacute, in xterm meta-shift-i.
-
- --
-
- Michael Salmon
-
- #include <standard.disclaimer>
- #include <witty.saying>
- #include <fancy.pseudo.graphics>
-
- Ericsson Telecom AB
- Stockholm
-