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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to seach junk or special char in vi edit Post 302318638 by McLan on Friday 22nd of May 2009 02:44:40 AM
Old 05-22-2009
how to seach junk or special char in vi edit

Hi,
I have text file which is genrated by some external system(not sure of what is the edirot used)
I copied to my Solaris machine and did vi

found some strange text like below in one line.

Ren\351 Erich

I wanted to find all places that contain \351, in vi I am unable search unsing /351 or /\\351 ..some stange behaviour.

I even tried wiht :set list..but of no use.

How can I search all location in the file tht has this \351 special char in vi.

Regards,
 

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DwtSTextSetEditable(3Dwt)												 DwtSTextSetEditable(3Dwt)

Name
       DwtSTextSetEditable - Sets the permission state that determines whether the user can edit text in the simple text widget.

Syntax
       void DwtSTextSetEditable(widget, editable)
	    Widget widget;
	    Boolean editable;

Arguments
       widget	 Specifies the ID of the simple text widget whose edit permission state you want to set.

       editable  Specifies a boolean value that, when True, indicates that the user can edit the text string in the simple text widget.  If False,
		 prohibits the user from editing the text string.

Description
       The DwtSTextSetEditable function sets the edit permission state information concerning whether the user can edit text in  the  simple  text
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See Also
       DwtSText(3Dwt),  DwtSTextGetString(3Dwt),  DwtSTextGetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtSTextSetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtSTextSetSelection(3Dwt), DwtS-
       TextClearSelection(3Dwt), DwtSTextGetSelection(3Dwt)
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding

															 DwtSTextSetEditable(3Dwt)
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