Vi question

[Conor P. Cahill]

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. 

:1,$ s/c/^v^M/g     (^v is <ctrl-v> and ^M is <return>. You will only see ^M)



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