Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Re: vim can't find carriage returns

On 24/05/11 14:31, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:
[...]
> I'm not sure why I have to search FOR multiple \n and replace WITH the
> \r. That may be a vi-thing, a Vim-thing, or a quirk / detail of my
> platform (Windows 7, using the prebuilt gVim, using :set ff=unix line
> endings). Hmmm, I never thought about that discrepancy before. [...]

It may be vi-compatible, but it's one of those "Vim quirks" which one
has to know: in Vim, to replace a line break by itself, you use :s/\n/\r
-- i.e., search for \n to find a line break, insert \r to add a line break.

Don't ask me why.


Best regards,
Tony.
--
There once was a member of Mensa
Who was a most excellent fencer.
The sword that he used
Was his -- (line is refused,
And has now been removed by the censor).

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