filepro menus and Ctrl-S - maybe Anzio setting?

Bruce Easton bruce at stn.com
Mon Dec 6 15:26:34 PST 2010


On 12/6/10 6:24 PM, Bruce Easton wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> mark->
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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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Actually shows the same way in just vi.  And the ^F is in a bluer shade 
of pale (where everything else is monocrhome.

Bruce


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