Re: Debian Woody VI (6.1.18)

[bmarcum@iglou.com (Bill Marcum)]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 08:44:59PM +0100, Chris Robinson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I wonder if anyone can help me?  I am trying to "VI" a file that appears 
> to have control characters.
> They appear as bold "~U|" and bold " | |", without the ".
> 
> I have tried seaching for these characters, with ":/~U" and :/| and 
> :/ctrlvM etc.  But it appears as if they do not exist.
> 
> Is there any way to search and replace these characters?
> 
Have you tried using the mouse to paste those characters into the search 
command?


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