[ILUG] search and replace problem

[Leo Talbot]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:40:42AM +0100, Michael McCabe wrote:
> I don't want to start a vi vs. emacs debate.  Using vi is it possible to
> search for one line and replace it with two lines.
> 
> e.g
> 
> replace
> 
> text of line 1
> 
> with
> 
> text of line1
> text of line2
> 
> I have tried various incarnations of :%s/text of line 1/text of line
> 1\ntext of line 2/g
> 
> but to no avail.
> 
> Cheers,
> M.

AFAIR, what you need to do is 
:%s/text of line 1/text of line 1^Mtext of line 2/g

You can produce the ^M by hitting ctrl-v, then ctrl-m.

Leo
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