[PLUG] To the VI Question

[Stafford A. Rau]

* Jason Dagit <dagit at engr.orst.edu> [020715 12:45]:
> I checked it on an HP-UX box...if I use vim then it works as advertised.
> If I use vi then it doesn't work.  In fact in vi you can't use %, you have
> to type 1,$.
> 
> Anyone know how to specify the newline in vi?
> 
> Jason

I'm suprised the "%" doesn't work in vi on your HP box - they must be
using a very very old version.

You could try the control-v trick:

:1,$s/ctrl-v<enter>/,/

The control-v is a quote mechanism in (some versions of) vi, as in
insert the next character in this search string rather than process it
immediately. In the above example, type control-v then hit your enter
key, so don't type out the brackets or anything like that.

--Stafford