Thank you John, Frans, and Albie! your answers were timely, educational, and helped me solve my problem—much appreciated. For the record I am using Unix (Mac OS X).
I've only been using Vim for a week now, but with every passing day am more and more impressed by its power. My original problem was that I wanted to delete all the blank lines in my document. Previously, in BBEdit I would search for "\r\r" and replace with "\r", so that's why I was searching for carriage returns in the first place. But I just discovered a much slicker workaround in Vim: :g/^$/d (source: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Remove_unwanted_empty_lines) Awesome! On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:26 AM, John Beckett <johnb.beck...@gmail.com>wrote: > JP Lew wrote: > > No matter which document I'm editing, whenever I search for a > > carriage return like this: > > > > /\r > > > > I get the following error message: > > > > E486: Pattern not found: \r > > Vim removes line endings when a file is read, so there may not > be any CR in the buffer that is displayed. Search for \n to find > what Vim has detected as a line ending. > > To convert from one line ending type to another, see: > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/File_format > > For testing, you can enter insert mode and type Ctrl-V Enter (or > Ctrl-Q Enter if you have mapped Ctrl-V to paste). That will > insert a CR displayed as ^M (Ctrl-M = 13 = CR). Searching for \r > will find it. > > John > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
