changing a ! to a \nC where \n is a newline

[David W. Tamkin]

coleman at cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman) said in <5015 at alpha.cam.nist.gov>:

| I am trying to use the global substitution power in vi to 
| replace every occurrence of ! with a newline and a C (\nC)

| Do you know how to make get vi to put a newline not a \n 
| when doing the substitution?

That's been answered twice by now, both people suggesting :%s/!/^V^MC/g.  Of
course, for a single substitution one can just put the cursor onto the ! and
type s<return>C<ESC>.

| How about the reverse, replace a newline with a character?

I can't think of a global way to do that, but JrC (where C is the character)
would do the trick.  Start with the cursor on the line of text whose ending
newline you want to change.  To change the newline to a string,
Js{string}<ESC>.

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