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- From: albani@cadlab.sublink.org (Lanfranco Albani)
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- Subject: Re: vi: how does one deal with characters like \331 ?
- Keywords: vi,octal
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.100111.13559@cadlab.sublink.org>
- Date: 20 Jul 92 10:01:11 GMT
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- tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
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- :From the keyboard of gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon):
- ::In vi, how do you enter a character like \331 into a search pattern?
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- :Under most implementations, you don't, since most versions can't
- :edit 8-bit files anyway.
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- Perhaps a bit ovrkilling: use xvi.
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- xvi is a binary editor using a subset of vi commands.
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- Bye, Lanfranco
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