Resurrecting an old thread. On 04 Jan 2013, at 00:53 , Tom Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > You can use the OS-wide Special Characters panel (bottom of the Edit menu): > use the gear menu to customise the list, and turn on Unicode. You can then > insert any Unicode character you'd like, including control ones. They can > also be added to your favorites.
This does not work for me with control characters like ^L or ^I. > If you turn on Unicode Hex Input (System Prefs -> Language & Text -> Input > Sources), you can also 'type' them directly: e.g. option-0, option-0, > option-0, option-9 (U+0009) yields a tab. This works, but boy is it annoying. Frankly, editing the file in vi and typing ^V^L or ^V^I is, maybe, simpler. -- Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue hues that any professional artist would dismiss as the work of some enthusiastic amateur who'd never looked at a real sunset. This was one of those sunrises. It was the kind of sunrise a man looks at and says, 'No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.' Nevertheless, it was beautiful. --The Thief of Time -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. 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> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
