Vi question
Tom Christiansen
tchrist at convex.COM
Sat Jun 16 13:28:26 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.
>From vi mode, something like:
:%s/foobar/foo^V^Mbar/g
Make sure you type control-V and control-M. If you put this kind
of thing in a macro, you may find you need more control-V's.
--tom
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