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From: toma@ozdaltx.UUCP (Tom Armistead)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: is there any way to see special characters in a text editor?
Summary: VI, ':set list'
Message-ID: <6349@ozdaltx.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 90 03:49:16 GMT
References: <81188@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <81188@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, wayne-s@cockle.cis.ohio-state.edu (Wayne Schmidt) writes:
> in a specific file that is created. Is there any way to use, vi, ex, mg,
> or emacs, ( or GNUemacs for that matter )  to display the control characters?
  . . .
> wayne schmidt 

In vi, you can use the command ':set list'. This will display all control
characters in the form '^A', it will also show a '$' for the end of each line.

To turn this off, use ':set nolist'

Tom
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