On 05/24/12 08:34, Bob von Knobloch wrote:
> Hi, I've searched all over but can't find an answer. How can one perform
> commands like ':%s/\n/\r\r/g' (replacing newlines or tabs etc.) in the
> gui's 'find and replace' dialogue?
Playing around with :promptrepl (the underlying command), it looks
like the *search* portion of it is happy to take various regexps.
However the replacement part only seems to accept literals. Thus in
your example, it puts in a literal "\r\r" instead of two newlines.
So I guess my short answer based on testing is: when using the gui
find-and-replace, there's no way to replace with anything but literals.
I'd be glad if someone could prove me wrong (it seems a peculiar
development choice to lose the parity with :substitute)
-tim
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