[Techtalk] vi Question

[Brenda Bell]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 11:54:53 -0500
Phil Savoie wrote:

> In vi you can look for hidden characters by issuing a "set list" command at 
> "last line mode".  This gives you the ^I for a tab, $ for end of line, etc. 
> Now heres the beef.  Is there a way within vi to use some kind of syntax to 
> search for these hidden characters?

Type / followed by ctrl-v followed by ctrl-i and press the return
key to find a tab.

Type / followed by $ to find a new line.