[ale] vi -- replace char with newline

[esoteric at denali.atlnet.com (Wandered Inn)]

This worked for me:

:s/:/: \\^M/

You get the ^M by depressing and holding the ctrl-V and then the 'm'

Cade Thacker wrote:
> 
> How do you search/replace for the newline character in vi/vim. very simple
> problem, I have a classpath
> 
> export CLASSPATH=classes.zip:cade.jar:bubba.jar:hello.jar
> 
> i want to make it
> 
> export CLASSPATH=classes.zip:\
> cade.jar:\
> bubba.jar:\
> hello.jar
> 
> So I want to search for all ':' and replace them with ':\<newline>' so I
> try
> 
> :%s/:/:\\\n/g
> 
> this does not work,
> 
> can sombody tell me how to search for special characters (ie tabs,
> newlines, etc)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --cade
> 
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