>>Soooo
>> :s/^V^C/\r/ <-- ctl-V ctl-C is shorter,
>> else the "\%x03" will work fine
>>should do what you want.
>Thanks very much. Yes that is what I needed. And the text I'm
>playing with came from some serial data and has STX ETX wrapping the
>real data. I was getting rid of the STX and trying to convert the
>ETX to end of line.
No worries. Eg, if you wanted to do everything in one shot, could do
something like
:g/\(^V^B\)\(.*\)\(^V^C\)/s//"\2"\r/
to bracket the text in quotes, get rid of the ^B/^C, *and* add the
newline at the end.
If more'n one occurrences happen in a line, then you could probably
prefix it with "\{-}" for non-greedy (ie, minimal) matching, and trail
the command with a 'g' to do it multiply on each line if needed.
>And since I'm on a windows machine, Yakov suggested ^Q instead of ^V.
Only if you got 'mswin.vim', which I killed off in a hurry before I even
heard everyone's advice here to trash it. :D
That's so you can use things like ^C/^X/^V (copy/cut/paste) and the ^V
would trash the literal prefix for a character. As well as lobotomise
'vim' to do windowsy things, which is generally something you *don't*
want. Kinda like putting a slushbox in a Ferrari...
>Molon Labe...
Yeh, "Come and *take* it...".
Love the story...
