Re: How to Move/Copy multi-line search matches?

On Monday, January 27, 2014 10:13:35 PM UTC+13, BPJ wrote:

> Why the backslash before <cr>?

Because...
> Will <cr> without it be replaced
> by ^M in a doublequoted string?

No. I suppose \r would be shorter, but in vim when to use \r or \n is confusing.

> Where in the :help is that?

:help expr-quote

> And if so why not a singlequoted string here anyway?

one can use single-quotes, and type a ^M by pressing ctrl-V first, but for the purposes of a group post, confusion can result when various web browsers and mail clients mangle the non-printing character. Using "\<cr>" avoids that and also is plain to human readers what is intended. In fact no quotes are needed, and the execute is not needed, I just tried

:g//normal v//e^M$"Ay

where ^M appears I typed Control-V and pressed enter. Simpler, though, to give a command that readers can copy and paste.

Regards, John Little



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