How do I type a carrot into Xterm?

[legoman666]

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[That One Guy]

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Be back later after my seizure.

:D

[archebyte]

Press the Blue-Arrow key and then the 'Sym' key to bring up the Symbol window. Select '>'.

for the symbols in the third row such as '^', highlight the symbol and press the 'SPACE' key.

[mikhmv]

I've seen numerous posts explaining how to do certain things and they will often say type something like "echo > sdfgsdf" My question is simple, how the heck do I type a carrot?

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copy to terminal this 2 lines:
~ $ gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/xterm/keys -t list --list-type=string "[Tab,Escape,bar,greater,asciitilde,grave,asciicircu m]"
~ $ gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/xterm/key_labels -t list --list-type=string "[Tab,Esc,|,>,~,\`,^]"

After this you will have > in low line on screen

[kwotski]

And you're useless.

Actually, "carrot" is a pretty amusing misrendering of caret, if that's what you meant. Seizure seems excusable in the circumstances.

[les_garten]

I've seen numerous posts explaining how to do certain things and they will often say type something like "echo > sdfgsdf" My question is simple, how the heck do I type a carrot?

Just cut and paste you Wascally Wabbit!!

http://www.peopletv.org/fuelmedia/FUEL_Media_Videos/Images/CarrotBnch.gif

The guy having the seizure is because you don't know how to spell Caret

[That One Guy]

And you're useless.

Who's the one asking the question incorrectly? Pot... kettle... 'nuff said.




Actually, "carrot" is a pretty amusing misrendering of caret, if that's what you meant. Seizure seems excusable in the circumstances.

At least someone has more than 5 brain cells and understood the reason for my "seizure". Props.

[bsving]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret

[les_garten]

I tried copy and pasting, but I couldnt find out how to paste into Xterm (which is an awful program by the way). I even vnc'ed into my N900 from a windows machine and tried to copy paste that way with no luck.

There must be a language barriar here, I meant Cut/Paste a PIC of a CARROT, HA HA HA!!!

I added emphasis, since subtlety seems lost on you!

[tpinhao]

I tried copy and pasting, but I couldnt find out how to paste into Xterm (which is an awful program by the way). I even vnc'ed into my N900 from a windows machine and tried to copy paste that way with no luck.

Just as a info ...

Copy ... CTRL + C
Paste ... CTRL + V

[les_garten]

I suppose inferring that you meant to copy/paste a caret from some other source is too complicated for you? Jesus ****ing christ, you're all ridiculous.

Welcome to LINUX! Not for the Thin Skinned!

Ohh, and you didn't thank the people who helped you educate your ignorant azz today!!

[bsving]

Google is fast !!!
Google the two words: caret and xterm

:)

[texaslabrat]

Press the Blue-Arrow key and then the 'Sym' key to bring up the Symbol window. ...symbols in the third row such as '^', highlight the symbol and press the 'SPACE' key.

^^^^^ This.

And to elaborate, the "space" key is necessary because the caret is one of those characters that can be used both stand-alone as well as an accent to certain letters in some languages (the tilde "~" is another common one, among others). So, basically for those characters that are "dual-use", you have to follow the selection of that special character with what it should accent. In this case, you select "space" as the character to be accented and the caret will appear by itself as a space is not considered a valid accent-able letter and thus it's smart enough to just put in the caret by itself. If you put in another character that is not valid, it will append that character AFTER the caret rather than put the caret on top of it. If you have a valid accent-able character (for instance, "u"), it will put the caret on top of it.

Hope that helps the OP and anybody else :D

[alexreed88]

funniest topic on this forum

[geneven]

Also, there was disagreement in the thread about what a caret is, besides carrot.

I call this < a left caret. I call this > a right caret. I call this ^ a little hat! But I think it's an actual caret.

[qole]

Also, there was disagreement in the thread about what a caret is, besides carrot.

I call this < a left caret. I call this > a right caret. I call this ^ a little hat! But I think it's an actual caret.

Apparently, in this context, they are called "hoinkies" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Uses_of_.E2.80.9C.3C.E2.80.9D_and_.E2.80.9 C.3E.E2.80.9D). :D :confused:

... operators for indicating the redirection of input/output in various command shells. In this context, they are often referred to as hoinkies (singular hoinky) in order to “avoid confusion with other bracket-type operators”.

[geneven]

Thanks for the info, though I think I would be guaranteeing confusion if I referred to a hoinky. Isn't that a white guy? (I know, the spelling is different.)

The idea is to avoid confusion by making it obvious what you mean. I think I'll try to switch to left caret and right caret, as mentioned, and up caret for what I called a caret above. The modifier expresses which way the caret points, pretty good! And if someone wants to refer to the letter v as a down caret, that's ok with me.

[JosefA]

The closest I can come to a constructive answer in a thread with a title like this is to suggest that there's a game called Burger Space in extras-testing.

It's got lettuce.

HTH.

[qole]

geneven: actually, if you, like me, think "hoinky" sounds ridiculous, there's lots of other accepted terms (left and right caret not being among them ;) ) including "angle brackets", "diamond brackets", "chevrons", and "greater than / less than".

[That One Guy]

But no Pickles? I don't want it, then. :D