On Sunday, August 15, 2010 11:48 AM, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 08/15/10 12:46, Suresh Govindachar wrote:
>> If I put my cursor on a line brak (^L) and hit *, I can find
>> other line breaks;  after that, in normal mode, typing / and the
>> up-arrow shows /^L in the command line region.
>>
>> Question:  Instead of using the "*" technique indicated above,
>> what do I type after typing / (in normal mode) to search for page
>> breaks?
> 
> Have you tried typing control+L to generate the ^L character?
> 
> It Works For Me.(tm)
> 
> If it doesn't work for you too, you may have some interfering
> mapping which you'd either have to disable or use control+V
> followed by control+L to enter a literal ^L character in your
> search term.

Thanks;  I do have mapped Ctrl-V to something else;  looked up 
:help CTRL-V-alternative, and tried Ctrl-Q Ctrl-L and it worked.

--Suresh

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