[Techtalk] vi Question

Phil Savoie psavoie1783 at rogers.com
Sat Dec 6 23:42:47 EST 2003


Thank you Brenda, I appreciate your input.

Phil

On Saturday 06 December 2003 14:06, Brenda Bell wrote:
> 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?
>
> Actually, I just realized you don't have to use ctrl-v as
> indicated in my previous note.  On my system, / followed by tab
> searches for tab.
>
> Brenda Bell
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> and mud)
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