On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 23:49 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
How do I know Ctrl-V + Ctrl-I is \t?
You can look up the old ASCII charts for the control codes.
Key sequence Hex Character / escape sequence / description ------------+-----+------------------------- CTRL+G 07 BEL ’\a’ (bell) CTRL+H 08 BS ’\b’ (backspace) CTRL+I 09 HT ’\t’ (horizontal tab) CTRL+J 0A LF ’\n’ (new line) CTRL+K 0B VT ’\v’ (vertical tab) CTRL+L 0C FF ’\f’ (form feed) CTRL+M 0D CR ’\r’ (carriage ret)
Hint: Read across both columns in the "man ascii" output.