related to the earlier discussion, for stripping the \r at the end of
lines in windows files, i use:

,x/$/ c//

where is a cut&pasted return char (yes, i could use '.' instead,
but i'm paranoid.) x doesn't seem to recognize \r as a escape
sequence. true?

no they don't: sam/regexp.c and acme/regx.c both have a lex function
that starts basically like this (from acme)

int
lex(void){
int c;

c = *exprp++;
switch(c){
case '\\':
if(*exprp)
if((c= *exprp++)=='n')
c='\n';

On Jul 17, 2008, at 8:28 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:

ctl+m

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Pietro Gagliardi mac.com> wrote:

interestingly this only works in some versions of acme and sam.
it seems to work ok under plan 9, and in inferno's acme,
but not in p9p or acme sac.

There are two different issues here. One is getting
an actual \r to the program in question (acme, sam, etc.)
and the second is how that program interprets it.

The first issue is getting a \r to the program.
On most systems, you type \r. On Windows,
Enter sends \r so the keyboard handler swaps \r and \n,
so you type Ctl-J to get \r. (If anyone cared, I think
you could check for Ctl in the input handler and not
swap in that case.) This applies to drawterm, inferno,
and 9pm, which all share the same gui code (I think 9pm
is the progenitor).