[ale] regex question

[Benjamin Dixon]

I apparently wasn't thinking that day, my apologies. But try this:

in your substitution press "CTRL-V W" that is, CTRL-V followed by the
character you want to replace. I actually tried it this time ;) and it
works. 

Again, sorry about posting the wrong solution, I suppose my answer was in
haste.

Ben

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Allan Neal wrote:

> 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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