7 Jul
2020
7 Jul
'20
1:36 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 3:19 PM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Huh? I've never seen this, in over 20 years of using vim. To
insert a newline just use
s/foobar/foo^V^Mbar/
where ^V^M are Control-V Control-M.
I never thought of that; I've always tried what works in ed, namely:
s/foobar/foo\
bar
and that gives me
foo^@bar
I call that a bug. (This is vim 8.1).
It certainly wouldn't occur to me to use ^V^M, anyhow: ^V^J would seem
more reasonable, but ^V is ignored in that context.
Before vim 7 there was a bug so bad I had to use nvi (and, often enough,
compile it from source): at that time, undo undid everything back to the
last action in vi-mode. If you had never been in vi-mode (as I usually had
not) it undid everything back to the last file-loading command! That one
made me grind my teeth a lot. Even now I habitually write before undoing,
just in case.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
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"Get a grip on your graks," I suggested. --Tanith Lee, Drinking Sapphire
Wine