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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Invisible Ascii with VI
Message-ID: <498@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 05:03:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: kuling.498
Posted: Thu Oct  1 05:03:45 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 7-Oct-87 03:50:38 EDT
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Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <258@unx1.UUCP> andy@unx1.UUCP (Andy Clews) writes:
>Does anyone out there know if it's possible to insert/search/replace
>non-printing ascii characters?
> .....
>

I think what you need may be to :set beautify in vi or do :Q to take
you into ex mode proper where you can manipulate ^M's and the like.

Otherwise, to insert a control character (^X, say) first hit ^V (<CTRL>-V)
and the next conrol character (in this case: '^X') will not be interpreted but
rather added to the buffer.


Hope this is what you were looking for.

Bo Thide, Swedish Institute of Space Physics. UUCP: ...enea!kuling!irfu!bt