> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2021 23:22:29 +0100 > From: ropers <rop...@gmail.com>
> It's still a little disconcerting to me how getting sed to play nice
> with \n *from inside vi* still seems like a bridge too far
easy peasy. to sed all spaces into newlines from nvi, enter
:!sed 's/ /&^V^M/g;y/^V^M/\n/'
echoed as
:!sed 's/ /&^M/g;y/^M/\n/'
but then it begs the question, why not open a new buffer and
:1,$s/ /^V^M/g
echoed as
:1,$s/ /^M/g
