[ale] regex question

[Allan Neal]

This doesn't work.  No offence but if I type :s/ and then CTRL-W for the ^W
it just backspaces.  No ^W shows up.  I know there is a way to do this as I
was shown once how to convert a dos text file over deleting the ^M's at the
end of each line in VI.

Allan
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:04:17PM -0500, Benjamin Dixon wrote:
> 
> 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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