Sunday, August 15, 2010

Re: Search for page break ^L

On 08/15/10 12:46, Suresh Govindachar wrote:
> If I put my cursor on a line brak (^L) and hit *, I can find
> other line breaks; after that, in normal mode, typing / and
> the up-arrow shows /^L in the command line region.
>
> Question: Instead of using the "*" technique indicated above,
> what do I type after typing / (in normal mode) to search for
> page breaks?

Have you tried typing control+L to generate the ^L character?

It Works For Me.(tm)

If it doesn't work for you too, you may have some interfering
mapping which you'd either have to disable or use control+V
followed by control+L to enter a literal ^L character in your
search term.

-tim


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