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- From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: How to quote % in vi/ex ': ' escape
- Message-ID: <Bx97Dq.43x@sci.kun.nl>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 17:32:14 GMT
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- In <heinz.689356033@marvin.tuwien.ac.at> heinz@marvin.tuwien.ac.at (Heinz Herbeck) writes:
- >How can I insert a % into a ':' command in vi, without it being replaced by
- >the current filename ?
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- >^V% and ^V^V% don't work.
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- But \% does.
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- >And, in the same way, how to quote # ?
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- Similarly: \# .
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- ObQuiz: find a situation where you need to quote a character with \^V .
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- Have a nice day,
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- Hans Mulder hansm@cs.kun.nl
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