how do you insert ^[ in vi?

[Fairlight]

Only Fairlight would say something like:
> 
> This is configurable with stty's lnext setting, which I assume stands for
> "literal(ise) next".  I tried looking it up on Solaris' man page but it
> didn't document anything other than its existance.

But GNU's stty(1) man page does:

       * lnext CHAR    CHAR will enter the next character quoted

The asterisk means it's a non-POSIX setting.

Couldn't let it rest 'till I found it.  I feel better now.  :)

mark->
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