Re: Representing carriage returns in a register

On Sep 13, 1:48 pm, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 13, 5:15 am, Drew Neil <andrew.jr.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Suppose I run "ayip to yank the following lines into register 'a':
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> >     one
> >     two
> >     three
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> > When I use the `:reg a` command to inspect the contents of the register, it
> > shows newlines as ^J, like this:
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> >     --- Registers ---
> >     "a   one^Jtwo^Jthree^J
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> > But if I use <c-r>a to paste the contents of that register at the command
> > line, the newlines are represented as ^M, like this:
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> >     /<c-r>a
> > expands to:
> >     /one^Mtwo^Mthree^M
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> But, this also happens in version 6.1.5 (which happens to be installed
> on a Solaris server here) so if it's a bug it's a very old one.
>

Also in version 5.5.

It would appear this is may be intentional. But I cannot imagine why.

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