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From: gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: vi missing commands on 3b1
Summary: why not just map ctrl-^ ?
Keywords: vi 3b1
Message-ID: <352@gnosys.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 89 00:25:19 GMT
References: <15580@duke.cs.duke.edu> <3192@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo)
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Organization: gst's 3B1 - Somerville, Massachusetts
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In article <3192@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> psfales@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Peter Fales) writes:
> In article <15580@duke.cs.duke.edu>, pusateri@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Thomas J. Pusateri) writes:
> > Does anyone know why ctrl-^ doesn't work with the unix-pc 3.51 version of vi?
> I believe the problem here is not vi, but the way that characters are mapped
> to the keyboard.  Holding down shift, control, and the "6" key does not
> send a ctrl-^ character...

Yeah.  Shift-ctrl-6 generates ESC-P-f (as does just ctrl-6).  However, you
can easily use vi's "map" command to cause ctrl-6 to do what you want:

	map ^[Pf :e #^M

I tried it and it worked just fine.

(You'll have to use ^V to enter the ctrl-6 and ^M characters into your ~/.exrc
file.)

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