Re: working with the escape character
From Eli the bearded <bgr...@ic.sunysb.edu>
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· 16 Feb 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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asantora@phosphorus wrote: >Greetings all... > >I have had a couple of requests for info on how to use ascii value 027 (escape) [proceeds to explain how to get an <escape> into a file] Oh yes, inventive. And quite unnecessary. As one of the vi gurus who hangs around comp.editors, I can tell you that learning how to put type escape in vi is one of the most important things to learn for using macros. To type escape in vi, hit <ctrl>-V, then hit escape. Here are some great vi macros for editing art in Replace mode: map <up> ^[klR map <down> ^[jlR map <left> ^[R map <right> ^[llR To use these, put them in a file called .exrc in your home directory. The ^[ in each is the escape character. The strings "<up>", "<down>", etc must be replaced by the key sequence of your arrow keys. To get that type <ctrl>-V and then hit the correct key. If you don't want to have those around all the time, you can put them in a different file. Then when you want to use them type ":source file" in vi. Elijah ------ feel free to ask me or the newsgroup comp.editors about any other vi problems
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