Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott) (12/02/88)
davidb@oliver.UUCP (David Baldwin) asks: | I am looking for something similar to UNIX's vi, which will allow | me to enter control characters (e.g. ^[, ^V, etc.) as well as printable | ASCII characters. In the vi insert mode I can enter an ASCII 27 (^[) | by typing ctrl-V followed by ctrl-[. Even better, it displays the | resulting "^[" on the screen. The desk accessory I'm using to draft this response to your post, "McSink" will accept control characters, although it will display them as an undistinguishable box, rather than the neat ^<whatever>. In its commercial form, Vantage, McSink has macro and spell-checking facilities. McSink was supposed to have everything but the kitchen sink for text editing, and it comes close. I find it invaluable for formatting (and un-formatting) all kinds of text-only documents. I'm not sure how to get it to you; the program is widely available on CompuServe and GEnie...