On Mon, Oct 26, 2026, at 08:18, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said "Dave Polaschek" on Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:33:38 -0600: > >> Note that I had no luck just setting the print option in the stock >> /usr/bin/vi, > > It works for me. Perhaps you didn't enter the characters as characters? > You cannot just type in print="0x80" you actually need to compose that > characater. To compose characters in vi you can use ctrl-x, so for > example to get 0x80 you would type "ctrl-x 8 0" and the resulting > character is what should be in the print command. > > See the vi(1) man page for control-X.
Thanks! I was pretty sure it was a problem entering the characters correctly there, but I tried everything my brain could remember. Control-X was not in my memory, as it used to be special in my stty, so I don’t think I’ve typed a control-x other than by mistake for over a decade, maybe two. > Andy
