On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:13 AM, John Beckett wrote: > > Aleafs wrote: >> :1,$ s/\t0\n/\n/g
Note that :% is a shortcut for :1,$ > In a substitute, \n means two different things: > - In the pattern, it refers to a newline. > - In the replacement, it refers to a null byte (8 zero bits). > > You can see this at ':help :s' by following the first two links. > > In a replacement, '\r' inserts a newline. Yes, it's strange, and > no, I didn't try to work out why this issue caused the problem > you report. My guess: Vim is really, really bad at handling extremely long lines, and if the goal was to delete "the last column of a text file" (I'm assuming every line ended with "\t0") then this command told vim to turn the file into one 700kb long line. ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
