On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 23:49 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote: > How do I know Ctrl-V + Ctrl-I is \t? You can look up the old ASCII charts for the control codes. Key sequence Hex Character / escape sequence / description ------------+-----+------------------------- CTRL+G 07 BEL ’\a’ (bell) CTRL+H 08 BS ’\b’ (backspace) CTRL+I 09 HT ’\t’ (horizontal tab) CTRL+J 0A LF ’\n’ (new line) CTRL+K 0B VT ’\v’ (vertical tab) CTRL+L 0C FF ’\f’ (form feed) CTRL+M 0D CR ’\r’ (carriage ret) Hint: Read across both columns in the "man ascii" output. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
