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Date:      Thu, 2 Jan 2020 10:59:44 +0000
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Substituting horizontal tab characters in vi
Message-ID:  <20200102105944.20fa6d39e669c9294eb01bec@sohara.org>
In-Reply-To: <20200102105916.67956873.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <61189.1577922242@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <20200102105916.67956873.freebsd@edvax.de>

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 10:59:16 +0100
Polytropon <freebsd@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 :)

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



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