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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Vi question
Message-ID: <1990Jun15.223600.27737@virtech.uucp>
Date: 15 Jun 90 22:36:00 GMT
References: <13132@ulysses.att.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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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. 

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



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