> Hi Ven!
>
> On Mi, 15 Sep 2010, Ven Tadipatri wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have a text file that I would like to sort and there's 2 things I
>> would like to do. First of all I would like to eliminate all duplicate
>> lines (this is on a linux machine). I tried :%s/\n\n/\n but though it
>> found the duplicate lines, it replaced it with a weird @ symbol.
>
> Yeah, that is an ancient vi'ism, I believe. Use \r in the replacing
> part. (see :h NL-used-for-Nul and also :h s/\r)
>
Yeah the \r in the replace part worked. That's really weird, because
though it does the right behavior, after the replace, if I search for
\r it says it can't find it, so somehow it translates \r in the
replace clause to \n in the buffer.
>> Then I would like to sort it (removing duplicates) and send the
>> output to a new window. I tried the following but with no luck
>> :new +!sort -u
>> :new +!sort\ -u
>> :new +%!sort\ -u
>> :new +:%!sort\ -u
Anyone else have ideas on how to get this behavior to work. It seems
like something vi should be capable of doing - I want to execute a
command on the current buffer and launch it in a new one.
>
> I think, you would have to double the backslashes. But I am not sure,
> this does what you want. I would expect it to open a new window and in
> the new empty window perform :%sort -u which is not really useful.
The double backslashes didn't seem to work.
This behavior is useful because I want to compare the output before
and after the sort, in 2 separate buffers, so I don't want it to be in
the same window.
Thanks,
Ven
>
> regards,
> Christian
>
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