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- From: stephen@memex.co.uk (Stephen Marley)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: How to quote % in vi/ex ': ' escape
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.151857.6381@memex.co.uk>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 15:18:57 GMT
- References: <Bx97Dq.43x@sci.kun.nl>
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- hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
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- : ObQuiz: find a situation where you need to quote a character with \^V .
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- What about substituting ^M for a real ctrl-M.
- eg.
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- :%s/\^M/\^V^M/g
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- This might be useful for converting macros posted in news/mail for real use.
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