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Subject: Re: Vi question
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Date: 15 Jun 90 20:13:56 GMT
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In article <13132@ulysses.att.com> mab@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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