I'm working in a unix environment where only VI is available, not VIM. I am trying to get a regular expression to basically do a find and replace in several files that spans several lines. I have googled it and can't find much. \n seems to be what I remember, as well as what I have found in various pages, but it doesn't work.
For example I would like to replace line1 line2 with line1 addline3 line2 and I try :%s/line1\nline2/line1\naddline3\nline2/g I've even tried just searching for it. /line1\nline2 nothing seems to work. Does anyone know how I can do this (don't feel limited to vi, I've tried ed and sed and can't get the syntax correct on those either)? Thanks Chris ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
