changing a ! to a \nC where \n is a newline
Bob McGowen x4312 dept208
bob at wyse.wyse.com
Thu Sep 20 11:23:06 AEST 1990
In article <5015 at alpha.cam.nist.gov> coleman at cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes:
>I am trying to use the global substitution power in vi to
>replace every occurrence of ! with a newline and a C (\nC)
>
>I have tried the following things:
>
>g/;/s//\\nC/g places the string \\nC where the ; is not a
>newline.
>
>g/;/s//\nC/g -- places a nC where the ; is.
>
>Do you know how to make get vi to put a newline not a \n
>when doing the substitution?
You need to go into the full ex mode first by typing an upper case Q.
Then you would enter:
g/;/s//\
C/g
The backslash at the end of the first line escapes the newline immediately
after so the pattern becomes what you want.
>
>How about the reverse, replace a newline with a character?
>
To globally do this is not something I know how to do. To do it once or
twice, from the visual mode type J which joins the current line and the
line following into one (this replaces the newline with a space). Then
you could replace the space with the character you want. Not too
elegent but it works. If you have to do it often look up :map for
creating a single key command out of the sequence.
>
>Sean Coleman
>NIST
>coleman at bldrdoc.gov
Bob McGowan (standard disclaimer, these are my own ...)
Product Support, Wyse Technology, San Jose, CA
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