Re: vim: want control character in substitution string

On 2013-03-11, Paul wrote:

> After much reading, I found that I can match ^@ with \%x00 in the
> search string, but I haven't found a way to specify control characters
> in the substitution string. Is there a way?

You can use the nr2char() function as a replacement expression,
e.g.,

:%s/\^D/\=nr2char(4)/g

See

:help sub-replace-expression
:help nr2char()

HTH,
Gary

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