LuKreme <[email protected]> sez: >I use BBEdit to post to USENET, and I wanted to insert a ^L character into >my post to mark a spoiler boundary. I looked up what I was supposed to do >and used the ASCII palette to insert ASCII-12, which put '\f' into the >BBEdit window. > >However, when i posted to USENET, what appeared in the post was \f, not ^L.
By default, BBEdit will insert the escaped form of the selected character, thus for instance "\f" . :-) To insert the literal character instead, just hold down the Command key while clicking "Insert". Regards, Patrick Woolsey == Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com> P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
