[TriLUG] Stupid VI question

[William Sutton]

AFAIK, CTRL+V, CTRL+M is the only way to do this...if another solution 
presents itself, I want to know :)

on another note, if you ever have to substitute out funny control 
characters, you can use CTRL+V, CTRL+(character) for the control character

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William Sutton

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Alan Porter wrote:

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> >:%s/,/*nl*/g
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> I just tried (in vim)   :%s/,/<CTRL-V><CTRL-M>/g
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> The ctrl-V says that the next character is literal, and
> should not be interpreted.  When you press ctrl-M, you'll
> see a blue colored "^M".
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> That is, 10 keystrokes: : % s / , / ctrl-v ctrl-m / g
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> I'm sure there's a dozen other ways to do it.
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> Alan
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