Re: Changing Search and Replace Newline Character

Hi Thomas,

I stumbled over this one too. Really annoying! I never understood the sense of it: \n means new line in search pattern and useless crap in the replace. Is there a reason behind, which I am not understanding as a middle advanced Vim-user?

Off-topic:
And while complaining about search and replace in Vim: I am still confused what to escape or not to escape (in Magic mode). With complicate patterns I fire up BBEdit (on macOS) or write a perl-filter. Much easier for me.

Best greetings to all


marek


> On 4. Nov 2022, at 11:59, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Do, 03 Nov 2022, Thomas Jakway wrote:
>
>> According to https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Search_and_replace:
>>
>>
>> "When searching, \n is newline, \r is CR (carriage return = Ctrl-M = ^M)… When
>> replacing, \r is newline, \n is a null byte (0x00)."
>>
>> There are also questions on StackOverflow about this, e.g. https://
>> stackoverflow.com/q/71417.
>>
>>
>> Is there any way to change my settings to make this consistent? I'd like \n to
>> mean "newline" in replace as well. I'm aware that this means \n can no longer
>> be used to mean null when replacing. Ideally I'd be able to change that to some
>> other control sequence, but not constantly tripping over this pothole is more
>> important. If necessary I'll insert nulls using sed or some other tool. I use
>> search and replace all the time but hardly ever need to insert a null byte
>> anywhere.
>
> No, this is not possible, except for creating a mapping that evaluates
> your expression and replaces the result, see, :h c_CTRL-\_e
>
>
> Best,
> Christian
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