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Historical convention. People had to have a way to define that a certain key combination had to be pressed / had to be informed that a certain combination had been pressed. Since a single caret is rather unlikely to occur in regular text it stands out.

VIm is the descendant of an editor from that era: vi. Without a GUI (no pointy-clicky) all input had to be done via the keyboard, and as such key combinations had to be used. gvim is just a fancy interface for VIm, and as such supports all the same combinations. Documentation on VIm can be found here, or by entering :help when in command mode.

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seeded-in-ubuntu(1)					      General Commands Manual					       seeded-in-ubuntu(1)

NAME

       seeded-in-ubuntu - Determine whether a package is safe to upload during a freeze

SYNOPSIS

       seeded-in-ubuntu [options] package...

DESCRIPTION

       Lists all the current daily images containing the specified packages.  Or whether the package is part of the supported seed.

       If it isn't on an image, it should be safe to upload.  During the final freeze, one should avoid packages in the supported seed too.

       An index of the current manifests is downloaded from UbuntuWire.

OPTIONS

       -b, --binary
	      The  packages  specified	are  binary packages.  This is faster than source packages, as otherwise we must query LP to determine the
	      binary packages that every specified source package builds.

       -u URL, --data-url=URL
	      URL for index of seeded packages.  Default: UbuntuWire's service at http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/ubuntu-seeded-packages/seeded.json.gz.

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit

EXAMPLES

       All the images that contain unity:

	      seeded-in-ubuntu -b unity

AUTHORS

       seeded-in-ubuntu and this manpage were written by Stefano Rivera <stefanor@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the terms of the ISC License.

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