On Sep 13, 5:15 am, Drew Neil <[email protected]> wrote: > Suppose I run "ayip to yank the following lines into register 'a': > > one > two > three > > When I use the `:reg a` command to inspect the contents of the register, it > shows newlines as ^J, like this: > > --- Registers --- > "a one^Jtwo^Jthree^J > > But if I use <c-r>a to paste the contents of that register at the command > line, the newlines are represented as ^M, like this: > > /<c-r>a > expands to: > /one^Mtwo^Mthree^M > > Why does the newline appear as ^J in one case, and as ^M in the other? > > Thanks, > Drew
It has done this for a long time, but it probably shouldn't. Your original example shows how to unexpectedly fail to find a search for text you just yanked from the buffer, but it messes up with editing also. Observe: one two three "ayip Gp one two three one two three :let @a='<C-R><C-R>a'<CR> Gp one two three one two three one^Mtwo^Mthree^M :let @a='one<C-V><C-J>two<C-V><C-J>three<C-V><C-J>'<CR> Gp one two three one two three one^Mtwo^Mthree^M one two three But, this also happens in version 6.1.5 (which happens to be installed on a Solaris server here) so if it's a bug it's a very old one. Note that using <C-R>a in insert mode will insert as intended no matter which characters are used for line breaks. However, after the :let command with the ^M characters, an extra line is appended due to treating it as "linewise", even though it was already linewise and did not need to be made even more linewise. -- 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
