On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 14:21 +1030, Tim wrote: > 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 pa characterublic lists. > That is only half of the answer. Ctrl-V forces the system to ignore the action of the CTRL character that follows it and treat it as just a character. -- ======================================================================= Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. -- Booth Tarkington ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
