[PLUG] To the VI Question

[Sandy Herring]

Matt,

IIRC, the default RH install gives you vim-minimal when you use `vi', and 
vim-enhanced when you use `vim' from the CLI. Try editing the file using
`vim' rather than `vi' and see if you can do the substitution.

Sandy

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Matt Alexander wrote: 
> OK, here's the contents of a text file after the od -c is run on it:
> 
> 0000000   b   o   b  \n   s   a   m  \n   j   o   e  \n   m   a   r   k
> 0000020  \n   s   a   l   l   y  \n   m   a   r   g   e  \n
> 0000035
> 
> So there are clearly newline characters.  But...  the :%s/\n/,/ doesn't
> work.  SoooooOOOOooOOoOOoooo...  Any guesses why?  This is a default
> RedHat 7.3 install.
> Thanks,
> ~M

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