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- From: hello@cs.utwente.nl (Ronald Hello)
- Subject: Re: vi: How to type S and ^Q in ascii file
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.113043.28155@cs.utwente.nl>
- Sender: usenet@cs.utwente.nl
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- Reply-To: hello@cs.utwente.nl
- Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
- References: <BrtA8F.JFn@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:30:43 GMT
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- In article JFn@news.cso.uiuc.edu, gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
- rh>
- rh> In vi, to enter any control character, first type Control-V, then
- rh>the desired control character. For example, to enter a Control-Y, you
- rh>would type: Control-V Control-Y
-
- Seems to me he asked especially about Control-Q and Control-S, not about your
- average Control character. Try it on a Sun, in vi with Control-S. I posted this
- as a question here some time ago and it seems it's NOT possible on HP's and
- Sun's for Control-S. Some machines will do it though. The Sun will do
- it in the csh and sh (don't know about other shells) but not in vi, the
- HP won't do it at all.
-
- rh>
- rh>---
- rh>John Gordon My incredibly witty saying has been
- rh>gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu Politically Corrected into oblivion.
-
- Ronald.
-
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