Re: Change control characters

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 3:21 AM, 'Alex Chen' via vim_use
<vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using Vim 7.4 on Windows. I used to be able to do replace control charters like ^M in command mode by entering ^V and followed by ^M so that the command
> :%s/^V^M/\r/
> will fix the carriage return issue of a file.
>
> The character ^ is the CTRL key, therefore the string :%s/^V^M/\r/ above is actually shown as
> :%s/^M/\r/ when I do this on Mac, which is also 'vim'.
> However, on Windows the CTRL-V key always 'pastes' whatever is in the cut buffer instead of entering control charter editing mode no matter which mode I am in.
>
> Is this a bug or is there something not set properly.
>
> Alex

It is the result of one of the mappings set up by the script
mswin.vim, which is supposed — if you can believe it — to make life
easier for Windows newbie users. There are two possible ways to fix
it, choose the one you prefer, or even both of them:

Method I. Go over your vimrc and make sure that it doesn't :source (or
:runtime) the mswin.vim script. Then various other keys such as
Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, etc., will go back to their "classical Vim" meaning.
This is what I personally prefer but YMMV.

Method II. Use Ctrl-Q instead of Ctrl-V, also to go from Normal mode
to Block-Visual. This will not solve the fact that mswin.vim hides
some other very useful bindings, though.

See
:help mswin.vim
:help CTRL-V-alternative
:help i_CTRL-Q


Best regards,
Tony.

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