8 Jul
2020
8 Jul
'20
3:45 a.m.
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Never read the book, since I'd already known VI by then :-) I'm not sure
where I picked it up; possibly from the manpage? But we know the saying
about programmers not reading documentation...
-- Dave
I'm
surprised that not more people know about the ^V "escape next
character" trick.
It's described quite clearly in O'Reilly's book on vi and vim
(coauthored by yours truly - plug, plug :-).