[OT] vi question

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:

> On 2010-07-14 19:26, Mike Wright wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm wasting a lot of time (probably because of a brain fart) googling
>> for this.
>>
>> I'm using Zend_Framework to generate some html which it unfortunately
>> does as one giant line.  I'm pretty sure it has an error but can't find
>> the missing/extra tag without formatting the html with line feeds.
>>
>> Will somebody tell me the symbol to use for a linefeed in substitutions
>>   as in
>> 	:s1,$#</tag>#</tag>linefeed#g
>>
>> tia,
>> Mike Wright
>
> Type control-V control-M.

That would be carriage return.
convrol-V control-J might work.
You might not be able to substitute a linefeed with vi.
I think sed can do it.

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