enter non printable chars
Roland Illig
roland.illig at gmx.de
Wed Feb 2 05:10:13 UTC 2005
Frank Dietrich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> how can I enter an non printable char, e.g. ASCII 0x0D, in mc-edit?
>
> My workaround is 'echo -ne \\013 >> some.file' an then cut'n'paste it.
> But I think that's not the best solution. ;-)
For every character except #13 (ASCII: CR) it works by first pressing
C-q and then C-a for #1, C-b for #2, and so on.
The issue with #13 is well-known amongst the developers of mc. I hope we
find the time to fix it.
Roland
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