filepro menus and Ctrl-S - maybe Anzio setting?

Bruce Easton bruce at stn.com
Mon Dec 6 15:24:18 PST 2010


On 12/6/10 6:04 PM, Fairlight wrote:
> Simon--er, no...it was Bruce Easton--said:
>> Just to be clear - it's just one character at shows at the top of vi for
>> the entire menu file.  I'm starting to wonder if vi on Linux is just
>> saying that about the file up there and it's not really there - or maybe
>> it's really at the end of the file.  I tried an od, but it'll take me a
>> while to remember how to interpret that.  But the number of options does
>> seem to correlate to the particular ctrl char that is visible there.
> One, use `vim -b filename`.
>
> Hover over the ^S.  Is it one character or can you move between the carat
> and the S?
>
> Have ya -tried- hitting x to delete it?  If it vanishes, it's really there.
>
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Using 'vim -b' - I believe it's showing as a control character - It 
jumps from the ^ to after the F for '^F' at the beginning of a menu file 
that shows '^F' at the very beginning.

Bruce


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