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From: chpetk@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Toby Kelsey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: changing a ! to a \nC where \n is a newline
Keywords: vi
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.120702.26466@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Sep 90 12:07:02 GMT
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Organization: School of Chemistry, University of Bath, UK
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>In article <5015@alpha.cam.nist.gov> coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes:

>  >How about the reverse, replace a newline with a character?

 By doing
  :g/pattern/j
(note small j) in vi, you replace the newline and leading spaces on the 
next line by a space; and
 :g/pattern/j!
concatenates the lines without inserting a space.
-- 
 Toby Kelsey	(chpetk@uk.ac.bath.gdr)