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How to replace letters with carriage returns on VIM

Posted 10-27-2010 at 12:35 PM by xri
Updated 10-27-2010 at 12:38 PM by xri (To add categories)

Tags administration, unix, vim, words

Problem:
A text file coms with a list comes with the items separated by commas, like:

Quote:

a,b,c....

We need them in column form, like:

Quote:

a
b
c

Solution:
:%s/,/{[Ctrl+v], then [Enter]}/g

Notes:

The % before s, indicates that the range where the replacement is to take place is the whole document.
Ctrl and v are pressed simultaneously, and then the character we mean vim to use (in this case Return).
The g at the end of the

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xri

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Slackware Undocumented 'Well Duh' Quark #2917 - console vim and X11 clipboard

Posted 03-20-2009 at 11:41 PM by lumak (Lumak's Guide to Random Things)
Updated 05-31-2009 at 02:41 PM by lumak

Tags clipboard, console, vim, xterm

The special registers * and + do not function in console vim in Slackware. Vim has been compiled both with -clipboard and -xterm_clipboard. If you enable GPM, you can shift highlight in console vim to middle click past in any x application. You can also Shift+middle click in console vim to past text from any x application. If you don't want to use the Shift modifier, you can sacrifice mouse functionality and type ":set mouse=r" in normal mode. This issue does not affect gvim.
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