On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 02:47:56AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
>Any vi users here?
>I would like to use the [CNTRL]V sequence to add simple graphical thingees
>like small boxes and circles to my text files. Is there a way to do this
>with vi? I have checked out the ascii and iso-8859 pages, and I don't see
>any graphical thinges in those ascii codes.
There aren't any. The graphical thingies are generally non-ascii,
Microsoft specific codes. You can get limited screen graphics using curses
where the codes are defined for a particular type of terminal (ANSI,
Wyse60, xterm, etc.) in the terminfo or termcap files. This method is
general and not tied into a specific type of terminal.
Generally it's a Bad Idea(tm) to embed non-ascii codes in text files.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/
Bill
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