Vi question

/32767 tif at doorstop.austin.ibm.com
Sat Jun 16 06:13:56 AEST 1990


In article <13132 at ulysses.att.com> mab at ulysses.att.com (Muhammad Basit) writes:
>I have a simple vi question. How do I substitute a character with the
>newline character in vi? I tried '\n', '\\n', the ascii code etc but
>it doesn't seem to work. 

Assuming that <r><ENTER> isn't what you want, type

	Qs/search-pattern/\<ENTER>/<ENTER>vi<ENTER>

This takes you to ex, which can handle this sort of thing.  "vi<ENTER>" puts
you back into vi.

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