is there any way to see special characters in a text editor?

[Tom Armistead]

In article <81188 at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, wayne-s at cockle.cis.ohio-state.edu (Wayne Schmidt) writes:
> in a specific file that is created. Is there any way to use, vi, ex, mg,
> or emacs, ( or GNUemacs for that matter )  to display the control characters?
  . . .
> wayne schmidt 

In vi, you can use the command ':set list'. This will display all control
characters in the form '^A', it will also show a '$' for the end of each line.

To turn this off, use ':set nolist'

Tom
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