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_pvxk on Nov 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Org mode 9.0 released

You don't have to use $'', you can also use literal tabs (ctrl-v to insert literals). The main difference between macOS and Linux that people notice is that macOS sed doesn't itself interpret \t (so you have to use literal tabs or $'' there).

\r\n is Windows, not Unix.

What about Unicode? (Btw, UTF-8 was created by unixers Rob Pike and Ken Thompson https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt )

westurner on Nov 18, 2016 [–]

With Ctrl-V <tab>, it's not possible to determine whether it's spaces or tabs (without cursoring over the /s|/t)

When you're parsing a text file, or streaming lines of text delimited with /n, how do downstream programs know whether it's ASCII or unicode?

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