Dale Scheetz wrote: > The ctrl-v works fine for a tab, but I have no newline key on my keyboard, > only an enter (which produces ^M when pressed after ctrl-v and the search > fails). Is there a way to enter a character by giving its ascii value (in > dos the alt key lets you enter the decimal value to get special > keystrokes) instead of the keypress. I guess, more important to me, will I > find the information I am looking for in the bash manpages?
See my last message :) Alternately, Ctrl-V Ctrl-J will imbed a \n in your command line. Be aware, though, that the term will act on the \n and move to the next line. It is still there, however! Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .