Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: changing a ! to a \nC where \n is a newline
Keywords: vi
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.023649.1336@virtech.uucp>
Date: 18 Sep 90 02:36:49 GMT
References: <5015@alpha.cam.nist.gov>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <5015@alpha.cam.nist.gov> coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes:
>I am trying to use the global substitution power in vi to 
>replace every occurrence of ! with a newline and a C (\nC)

:1,$s/!/<ctrl>-V<Return>C/g	(this will appear as:1,$s/!/^MC/g)



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