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Jonathan Moore

@b0rk

Did you notice that the control character is the same as the corresponding letter you type with a change in the high order octal place?

Ex bell is octal 007 and G is octal 107.

I find this really useful when I can't remember how to type a particular control character, I can just look at the ASCII man page to figure it out.

29 October at 20:38 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Julia Evans

@Moore interesting what's an example of a control character you might look at the ASCII man page to type in?

I know about this correspondance but I've never found a use for it

29 October at 20:41 | Open on social.jvns.ca
Jonathan Moore

@b0rk anything other than ^C.
Like if you want to send \r instead of \n.

I have only used it for practical reasons once or twice.

29 October at 22:02 | Open on mastodon.social
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