[TriLUG] Stupid VI question

Brian Weaver cmdrclueless at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 10:14:34 EST 2006


Rick,

try using the combination '<CTRL-V><ENTER>'  for the *nl* in your substitution.

-Brian

On 2/8/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, I'm trying to grok VI, really I am.
>
> The other day I had a file of e-mail addresses, separated by commas. I
> wanted to put each one on it's own line.
>
> So I fired up vi(m) figuring this would be easy, just do a global
> change of comma to new line with something like:
>
> :%s/,/*nl*/g
>
> I couldn't figure out how to represent a new line in the substitution.
> Surely this is possible, isn't it?  What's the right thing to replace *nl*?
>
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