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How to paste Escape sequences in Terminal's preferences
Authored by: clith on Jan 23, '04 02:20:51PM
Yes, in bash "\e" is translated to escape by the shell before it is parsed by the command you run (in this case echo). In tcsh you just type control-v and then type whatever special character you like. This is because tcsh by default uses escape sequences to edit text on the command line (esc-b is backward-word for instance -- see the tcsh man page for the "bindkey" built-in or type "bindkey" by itself to get a dump of all bindings.

So please note that this hint is bash-specific and sould read:

"How to bind keys for editing the command line in bash"


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