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Article #1164Re: changing a ! to a \nC where \n is a newline
From: Conor P. Cahill
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 02:36
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 02:36
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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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!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 Lines: 12