From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jan 2 10:59:53 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA951F42DE for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2020 10:59:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47pQ6J2MSQz4GZ4 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2020 10:59:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1577962792; x=1580554792; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=ScouKyEJSRmqx57kNJ29kSyOEDDqqs5O3sIRVoiGdzU=; b=Z4YsKVrLQIJ8o3CdaMPUQcWiKL4+fkHmPioEE7bsdeANo1DSABIv12kuLbTklKUm6Kv1NHv+wyj+7X3XlhxjqT44XadZQ8Btzq33vFU7RFnotKn1dzcjvn5AHTqiP+kZWL4DfNorFnaYD/aj5wlniCnDpZFa/0H07ODia7vyWGY= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi42YTAwMDAwMTc4OGU0NC5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r2.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r2.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.190.2]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Thu, 2 Jan 2020 05:59:49 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r2.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Thu, 2 Jan 2020 05:59:47 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.92.3 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1imyCf-0000SY-1V; Thu, 02 Jan 2020 10:59:45 +0000 Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 10:59:44 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Polytropon Cc: "Ronald F. Guilmette" , 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 47pQ6J2MSQz4GZ4 X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=Z4YsKVrL; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.79 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.94)[-0.936,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; FORGED_SENDER_VERP_SRS(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.99)[-0.994,0]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[198.176.0.142.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.15.0]; ENVFROM_VERP(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(0.14)[ip: (-0.37), ipnet: 142.0.176.0/22(0.69), asn: 7381(0.41), country: US(-0.05)]; FORGED_SENDER(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 10:59:53 -0000 On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 10:59:16 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > I can confirm this on FreeBSD 12.0-p7. Additionally, you can > use :s//something/ (i. e., use TAB key instead of > Ctrl+I). I've used ^V in that situation for decades because 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