You could write, or hunt up, a "Character Map" like in start->programs->accessories->systemtools->. Mine has U-007C: Vertical Line. An x web browser on a wikipedia page for unicode would give you a bazillion glyphs. I get vi/vim has some octal/hex input feature somewhere. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Entering_special_characters
I am a big fan of the "set -o vi" mode of ksh/bash command line editing, not the bash thing so like DOS. In fact, I never leave $HOME except insice () so my commands when recalled all work. With X and command recall and vi command editing, you do not need the path shortening keystoke savings of cd. I usually make $HISTSIZE big, something like 32767 seems to all it can handle, move the $HISTORYFILE somewhere permanent, save it periodically in an archive, and write scripts to search it and display it so I can recall keystrokes for years. For long lines, you have to go exc-v-enter into vi every time, as they recall truncated, but they recall. Now, if you have or install vim, you export EDITOR=vim and poof! vi is not hard wired. I use vix, a script that, before running vi, echos out linefeeds to save the screen in the scrool buffer, and after running vi, returns 0 always, as when command line editing, return not zero from vi (any beep for trivial error) and the vi file is discarded.
Code:
$ cat mysrc/vix
#!/usr/bin/ksh
(
stty -a | sed '
s/^/ /
t a
:a
s/.* rows = \([1-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/
t
d
' | read zr
# echo $zr >&2
if [ "$zr" = "" ]
then
zr=25
fi
while [ "$zr" != -1 ]
do
zr=$(( $zr - 1 ))
echo >/dev/tty
done
vi "$@"
exit 0
)
I think the parens are for one aix or hpux system where the ksh, upon detecting the call of a ksh script, ran scripts in the login ksh, as if sourced. My environment kept getting trashed. My vix did not seem to work well on later x and vim, but it helps. I keep my xterms with huge scroll buffers running for weeks under vnc, where you can disconnect and reconnect to your remote per-host X desktops. Keystrokes are so valuable.
They really did not map 0174 onto the keyboard anywhere? How anti-ascii ! Rule Britannia!
Last edited by DGPickett; 02-28-2013 at 05:55 PM..
ok, I am having a seriouse problem!
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ckbcomp
ckbcomp(1) User Manuals ckbcomp(1)NAME
ckbcomp - compile a XKB keyboard description to a keymap suitable for loadkeys
SYNOPSIS
ckbcomp [option ...] [layout [variant [option ...]]]
DESCRIPTION
The ckbcomp keymap compiler converts a description of an XKB keymap into a console keymap that can be read directly by loadkeys.
OPTIONS
-?, -help
Print a usage message and exit.
-charmap charmap
The encoding to use. There should be an unicode ACM map for this encoding in /usr/share/consoletrans.
-Idir Search top-level directory dir for files included by the keymap description. This option may be used multiple times. After all
directories specified by -I options have been searched, /etc/console-setup/ckb, /usr/share/X11/xkb, /etc/X11/xkb and
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb will be searched too.
-v level
Set level of detail for listing. level is a number from 1 to 10.
-compact
Generate a compact keymap with at most two xkb groups and two levels in each or only one xkb-group and up to four levels.
XKB KEYBOARD DESCRIPTION
The keyboard layout, variant and options components can be also specified directly on the command line. See the synopsis of the command.
-symbols name
Specifies the symbols component name of the XKB keyboard description.
-keycodes name
Specifies the keycodes component name of the XKB keyboard description.
-rules name
The name of the rules file to use.
-model name
Specifies the keyboard model used to choose the component names.
-layout name
Specifies the layout used to choose the component names.
-variant name
Specifies the layout variant used to choose the component names.
-option name
Adds an option used to choose component names.
SEE ALSO xkbcomp(1)AUTHOR
Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>, <zinoviev@debian.org>
console-setup MAY 2007 ckbcomp(1)
02-28-2013
