Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ulysses!mab From: mab@ulysses.att.com (Muhammad Basit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Vi question Message-ID: <13132@ulysses.att.com> Date: 15 Jun 90 14:15:29 GMT Sender: netnews@ulysses.att.com Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 11 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. I would very much appreciate a response from someone in this regard. If this problem has already been discussed on the net just send me an email. Thank you all MB