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Comment by dolzenko

9 years ago

> that's why ^J is a literal newline

So I don't quite understand how that table explains it. I mean aside from the fact J character code being the LF code with first two bits zeroed.

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dolzenko

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Bedon292  9 years ago

It is explained under the chart for [ and Esc. CTRL zeroes out the first two bits of a character. So that is the explanation.

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