[wplug] vi question

Eric C. Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Thu Jul 3 12:01:28 EDT 2003


On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:32:21AM -0400, James O'Kane wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, John Harrold said:
> > so i don't know? i've always done ctrl-q, though i don't really remember
> > where i got it from. anyone else know the difference?
> The difference I can tell is that ctrl-v works and ctrl-q doesn't. :)
> At least from a bash shell in an xterm, which I think matter in some 
> manor.

It's whatever the "lnext" (literal next) setting is on your
tty.  ^V and ^Q are the most common choices. See "man stty".

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u



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