Re: "Exploding" a paragraph into individual lines

2016-01-27 20:49 GMT+03:00 Chris Lott <chris@chrislott.org>:
> I'd like to take a paragraph like the following:
>
> This is a paragraph. Wow! What do I do now?
>
> And break it into individual lines, ala:
>
> This is a paragraph.
> Wow!
> What do I do now?
>
> StackExchange revealed this regex that seems to work well matching the proper lines:
> [.!?][])"']*\($\|[ ]\)
>
> So I can do this:
> :%s/[.!?][])"']*\($\|[ ]\)/XXX\r\r/g
>
> But obviously need something where XXX is!

This should be `\1`, while part before `\(` should be surrounded by
`\(\)`. And already existing `\(` should be `\%(` because you do not
need capturing here. You can also put `\zs` before `\%(`, in this case
`XXX` should be nothing, `\(\)` is also not needed.

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