[TUHS] v7 uucp debugging help requested

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Tue Jul 7 16:23:20 AEST 2020


Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jul 2020, arnold at 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/
>
> I'm surprised that not more people know about the ^V "escape next 
> character" trick.
>
> -- Dave

It's described quite clearly in O'Reilly's book on vi and vim (coauthored
by yours truly - plug, plug :-).

Arnold


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