Annotation of 42BSD/usr.lib/learn/editor/L43.1a, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: #print
        !             2: Note that there is quite a list of special characters
        !             3: recognized by the editor:
        !             4:  . [ * ^ $ & /
        !             5: What do you do when you want to specifically use
        !             6: one of these characters as itself, rather than
        !             7: for its funny meaning?  You must precede it by a backslash,
        !             8: as in
        !             9:   s/\./,/p
        !            10: which will change the line
        !            11:   x, y. and z
        !            12: into
        !            13:   x, y, and z
        !            14: easily.  The same works for all the other special
        !            15: characters.  What command would change
        !            16:   *
        !            17: into
        !            18:   c
        !            19: Type "answer COMMAND" where COMMAND is of the form
        !            20:   s/.././p
        !            21: #copyin
        !            22: #user
        !            23: #uncopyin
        !            24: #match s/\*/c/p
        !            25: #match s/\*/c/
        !            26: You forgot the "p" on the end.
        !            27: #log
        !            28: #next
        !            29: 44.1a 10

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