On Do, 03 Nov 2022, Thomas Jakway wrote:
> According to https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Search_and_replace: > > > “When searching, \n is newline, \r is CR (carriage return = Ctrl-M = ^M)… When > replacing, \r is newline, \n is a null byte (0x00).” > > There are also questions on StackOverflow about this, e.g. https:// > stackoverflow.com/q/71417. > > > Is there any way to change my settings to make this consistent? I’d like \n to > mean “newline” in replace as well. I'm aware that this means \n can no longer > be used to mean null when replacing. Ideally I’d be able to change that to > some > other control sequence, but not constantly tripping over this pothole is more > important. If necessary I’ll insert nulls using sed or some other tool. I use > search and replace all the time but hardly ever need to insert a null byte > anywhere. No, this is not possible, except for creating a mapping that evaluates your expression and replaces the result, see, :h c_CTRL-\_e Best, Christian -- Letzte Worte von A. Senna: "Irgendetwas klappert da." -- -- 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 because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20221104105931.GC1394649%40256bit.org.
