Substituting horizontal tab characters in vi

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Thu Jan 2 10:59:53 UTC 2020


On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 10:59:16 +0100
Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> I can confirm this on FreeBSD 12.0-p7. Additionally, you can
> use :s/<Ctrl+v><TAB>/something/ (i. e., use TAB key instead of
> Ctrl+I).

	I've used ^V<TAB> in that situation for decades because <TAB>
alone didn't work (probably on the first version of vi I ever used), it
comes as some surprise that I didn't need to :)

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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