How to replace in vim a newline by a space? - Editors

On Jun 17, 3:43 am, "Thomas Wiedmann" <t...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> how, i. e. with which command, can all newlines of a textfile be replaced by
> spaces with vim 6.1?
>
> Thanks for all good hints.
>
> Thomas Wiedmann

Don't know 6.1 but in 7 it's:

%s/\n/ /cg

if you remove the 'c' it will just change them all without asking you
to 'confirm' each one

http://applications.linux.com/articl...d=13&pagenum=1

rd

And to replace spaces with newlines you use:

:%s/ /\r/g

Mark

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:43:13 +0200 from Thomas Wiedmann <th.wm@gmx.de>:
> how, i. e. with which command, can all newlines of a textfile be replaced by
> spaces with vim 6.1?

Replacing a newline with a space amounts to joining the lines.

I believe :.,$J will do it.

There's a mode setting to determine whether joined lines have a space
between them. If you try the command and you don't get spaces, hit u,
check the help for that mode and set it the other way. :-)

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On Jun 17, 2:03 pm, "znxs...@gmail.com" <znxs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And to replace spaces with newlines you use:
>
> :%s/ /\r/g

Why is newline \r and not \n in the replacement part of a vim regex?
When matching it is \n and that's the "normal" designation. I've been
wondering about that for ages.

Tom

On 2007-06-18 03:08:46 -0500, bakert <bakert@gmail.com> said:

> Why is newline \r and not \n in the replacement part of a vim regex?
> When matching it is \n and that's the "normal" designation. I've been
> wondering about that for ages.

I think that this is the way that nedit does it, too.
--
Aaron Hsu <aaron.hsu@sacrificumdeo.net>

"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he
could do only a little." - Edmund Burke

On 18 Jun, 09:08, bakert <bak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is newline \r and not \n in the replacement part of a vim regex?
> When matching it is \n and that's the "normal" designation. I've been
> wondering about that for ages.
>
> Tom

I am not an authority on this but my understanding is that when you
press the Enter key, that is in fact a carriage return (\r). However
once inserted you get a line break (\n). Why this is done that way I
am unaware.

Hope that helps explain in some way why \r is used.

Thanks
Mark