ok what about Terminal? On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 14:18 +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > > Just wondering, is it a good idea(tm) to remap ctrl-m? > > Ctrl-m is usually a synonym for the Enter key, i.e. it sends a newline > character. > > Try this in a shell (% indicates the terminal prompt) > > % cat > foo > > Then type Ctrl-m followed by Enter followed by Ctrl-d > > Ctrl-d sends end-of-file. You have just created a two-character file > with the character generated by a ctrl-m and the character generated go > the Enter key. > > Now, to examine the characters in the file: > > % od -c foo > 0000000 \n \n > 0000002 > > We see that both Ctrl-m and Enter added a \n character to the file. > > And: > % man ascii > shows us that \n is the line feed character, with a decimal value of 10. > > Cheers, > Carl. > -- Caleb Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
