On 14Jul2010 16:54, fred smith <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:26:25AM -0700, Mike Wright wrote: | > Will somebody tell me the symbol to use for a linefeed in substitutions | > as in | > :s1,$#</tag>#</tag>linefeed#g | | in vi: ^V^M, or maybe ^V^V^V^M. Try the first then if it doesn't do what | you want, try the second. The former; Mike should get a literal ^M in the substiution command. The latter (^V^V^V^M) I have used in macro definitions to get ^V^M into the macro, to get the ^M when the macro runs:-) -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Live to Flame - Flame to Live - Flame to WIN - Lou Montgomery <lm8637@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines