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From: geoff@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Geoffrey R. Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Invisible Ascii with VI
Message-ID: <1805@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 10:50:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 10:50:35 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Oct-87 02:59:41 EDT
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Reply-To: geoff@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Geoffrey R. Walton)
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In article <250@hobbes.UUCP> root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) writes:
>+---- chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes in <8807@mimsy.UUCP> ----
><< a problem with removing trailing ^M's from lines in vi >>
>| 	: % s / ^V ^M $ / /
>| 
>| works fine for me.
>| 
>| (Going the *other* way---adding ^Ms---is another matter entirely.)
>
>Yup :-)
>

What's wrong with:

:g/$/s//

This, of course, supposes that you want to insert a blank line
between each line of existing text.  (That isn't what you want
to do?  OK, I give up.  Why _DO_ you want to add "hard" carriage
returns to the lines in your file?)

#include <all_usual_disclaimers.h>

Geoff Walton
Software Publications
NCR E&M San Diego
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