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From: als@bohra.cpg.oz (Anthony Shipman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Vi question
Summary: doesn't work for me
Message-ID: <364@bohra.cpg.oz>
Date: 28 Jun 90 07:07:21 GMT
References: <13132@ulysses.att.com> <2571@awdprime.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Power Group, Melb, Australia
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In article <2571@awdprime.UUCP>, tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (/32767) writes:
> 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>

I have always used : to get the ex commands and the behaviour is different.
When using : the \<ENTER> doesn't work, instead you could use ^V

:s/search-pattern/^V^M/

symmetrically, ^V doesn't work if Q is used to get to ex!
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Anthony Shipman                               ACSnet: als@bohra.cpg.oz.au
Computer Power Group
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St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia
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