how do you insert ^[ in vi?

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
> 
> 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.  :)

It's also only in "cooked" mode.  Since most (all?) full-screen programs
(including vi and filePro) run in raw mode, it has no effect on them.

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