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From: avr@hou2d.UUCP (Adam V. Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Invisible Ascii with VI
Message-ID: <1613@hou2d.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 17:48:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: hou2d.1613
Posted: Mon Oct  5 17:48:34 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Oct-87 01:19:10 EDT
References: <258@unx1.UUCP> <469@devon.UUCP> <8807@mimsy.UUCP> <250@hobbes.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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Summary: Inserting control characters is simple too

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.
> | Of course, this could be a bug in other versions of vi.  (At this
> | very moment, I am running `Version 3.7, 6/7/85'---so says `:ver'.)
> The "vi" distributed by Microport is `Version 3.9, 2/9/83'.  Strange,
> when was the timewarp?  (ps, the pattern above works ok, as well as
> the one without the trailing '$')
> | (Going the *other* way---adding ^Ms---is another matter entirely.)
> Yup :-)
> | In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690)
> John Plocher uwvax!geowhiz!uwspan!plocher  plocher%uwspan.UUCP@uwvax.CS.WISC.EDU

Not really. Try :1,$s/$/\^V^M/ which will echo as
:1,$s/$/\^M/
and works as advertized, at least for me (I use System V).
				Adam Reed (hou2d!avr)