Hi Thomas, I stumbled over this one too. Really annoying! I never understood the sense of it: \n means new line in search pattern and useless crap in the replace. Is there a reason behind, which I am not understanding as a middle advanced Vim-user?
Off-topic: And while complaining about search and replace in Vim: I am still confused what to escape or not to escape (in Magic mode). With complicate patterns I fire up BBEdit (on macOS) or write a perl-filter. Much easier for me. Best greetings to all marek > On 4. Nov 2022, at 11:59, Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org> wrote: > > > 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. -- -- 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/A2D16210-C56A-4775-8C9B-53D13E83476E%40googlemail.com.
