From: 71231 DOT 104 AT compuserve DOT com (Richard Slobod) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: sed hates me Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 06:01:27 GMT Organization: Warwick Online Lines: 11 Message-ID: <357b7c2a.82759946@news.warwick.net> References: <357aae4b DOT 6492244 AT news1 DOT bway DOT net> <1998060802335800 DOT WAA17898 AT ladder01 DOT news DOT aol DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: m203-17.warwick.net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees) wrote: >The problem is that you need to be able to type that without the cursor going >backward. In bash and under vi, you can do that by first typing control-v. In >the DOS editor, EDIT, you can do that by first typing control-p. Maybe someone >knows how to get a control-h character into an emacs buffer or onto a >command.com command line--I don't. In Emacs: precede it with Ctrl-Q In COMMAND.COM: probably not possible (although you can do this in 4DOS by preceding it by Alt-255)