Re: How using put = stringVar with carriage return into stringVar

> let stringVar = sometext\nsomefootext'
>
> exec 'put = stringVar'
>
> does not interpret carriage return

You need double-quotes instead of single-quotes so the escaping gets
translated:

:let abc="abc\ndef\nghi"
:put=abc

does the trick for me.

-tim

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