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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Vi question
Message-ID: <103127@convex.convex.com>
Date: 16 Jun 90 03:28:26 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. 

From vi mode, something like:

:%s/foobar/foo^V^Mbar/g

Make sure you type control-V and control-M.  If you put this kind
of thing in a macro, you may find you need more control-V's.  

--tom
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