[lug] grep question

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Mon Jun 11 14:06:00 MDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 10:54 -0700, karl horlen wrote:
> > Just for fun I copied /bin/ls into my ~/bin
> > directory and named it:
> > \xe6\x99\xa6, or "晦" or U-6666.
> > It displays correctly in my shell, I can enter the
> > character with
> > C-U6666, I can execute it, it's just all-around
> > neat.
> 
> i'm not quite following your example... what do you
> meant you can enter the character with C-U6666?

C-U6666 was my attempt at Emacish.  What it's supposed to mean is
Control-Shift-U Release 6666 Enter.  It looks like Control-Shift-U 6666
Release works as well.

This is in gnome-terminal.  KDE or XFCE and others may have their own
ways of entering Unicode.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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