On 11/4/22 3:59 AM, Christian Brabandt 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
I have to admit I've also found this inconsistency kind of baffling and
annoying. Although I don't replace something with a newline all that
often, so so far I've just lived with replacing whatever with nul,
undoing it, and editing the replace to do what I actually want. I have
also (mostly) trained myself to use ^V^M in the replacement instead,
which does what I want, although technically doesn't do what it says.
I've also never, in decades of programming and probably years spent in
vi then vim, wanted to replace anything with a nul.
I realize it's far, far too late to change this, so just venting a bit.
And it's the small imperfections that emphasize the perfection of the
whole. :-)
Brian
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