Do you know how to insert a Ctrl-A code aka "^A" in Midnight Commander in Linux? I've tried different ways and nothing works for me. Thanks.

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Re: CTRL-A Codes
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Mar 01 2020 08:14 am

Do you know how to insert a Ctrl-A code aka "^A" in Midnight Commander in Linux? I've tried different ways and nothing works for me. Thanks.

I don't know, but if you're making text files with Synchronet attribute codes, often you can put \1 instead (that's literally a backslash followed by the number 1) in place of a Ctrl-A, and Synchronet will interpret that as the Ctrl-A for the attribute code.

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Re: CTRL-A Codes
By: Nightfox to The Millionaire on Sun Mar 01 2020 10:55 am

Re: CTRL-A Codes
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Mar 01 2020 08:14 am

Do you know how to insert a Ctrl-A code aka "^A" in Midnight Commander in Linux? I've tried different ways and nothing works for me. Thanks.

I don't know, but if you're making text files with Synchronet attribute codes, often you can put \1 instead (that's literally a backslash followed by the number 1) in place of a Ctrl-A, and Synchronet will interpret that as the Ctrl-A for the attribute code.

I think that's only true in the text.dat and other source files (e.g. Baja or JavaScript source code).

I've never used it, but the answer to TM's question appears to be listed here: https://midnight-commander.org/wiki/doc/editor/hotkeys

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Re: CTRL-A Codes
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sun Mar 01 2020 11:20 am

I don't know, but if you're making text files with Synchronet
attribute codes, often you can put \1 instead (that's literally a
backslash followed by the number 1) in place of a Ctrl-A, and
Synchronet will interpret that as the Ctrl-A for the attribute code.

I think that's only true in the text.dat and other source files (e.g. Baja or JavaScript source code).

Ah, good to know.

Nightfox

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Re: CTRL-A Codes
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Mar 01 2020 08:14:22

Do you know how to insert a Ctrl-A code aka "^A" in Midnight Commander in Linux?
I've tried different ways and nothing works for me. Thanks.

that depends on the editor you are using with mc...

if you are using mcedit, you hit CTRL-Q and then the character you want to insert so

CTRL-Q CTRL-A

will insert the ^A character for you...


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Re: CTRL-A Codes
By: Rampage to The Millionaire on Sun Mar 01 2020 07:24 pm

Re: CTRL-A Codes
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sun Mar 01 2020 08:14:22

Do you know how to insert a Ctrl-A code aka "^A" in Midnight Commander in Linux?
I've tried different ways and nothing works for me. Thanks.

that depends on the editor you are using with mc...

if you are using mcedit, you hit CTRL-Q and then the character you want to insert so

CTRL-Q CTRL-A

will insert the ^A character for you...

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Thank you so much. It worked as you said it would. :-)

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El 1/3/20 a las 13:14, The Millionaire escribi¢:

Do you know how to insert a Ctrl-A code aka "^A" in Midnight Commander in Linux? I've tried different ways and nothing works for me. Thanks.

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CTRL+q, then A

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