[ale] regex question

[Benjamin Dixon]

You can press CTRL and then the control key you want to create. In the 
vi s/// you will see the control character appear. So for ^M, you would
press CTRL-M and you should see it in the substitution.

Ben

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Allan Neal wrote:

> I'm receiving daily quotes via a mailing list and some
> characters are messed
> up on occation.  I get some control chars like ^R for
> a ' and ^W for a , and
> space and a ^V for a -.  How, in vi, do you search for
> a control char to
> replace it in a :s/... statement?
> 
> Thanks
> Allan
> 
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