:%s/word /word^M/g
will replace the space after the word "word" with a line break across the whole file.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Inserting new lines with vim regular expressions
If you want to insert new lines with sed-style regular expressions in vim, the usual '\n' doesn't work. The trick is to produce a '^M' by hitting Ctrl-V,Ctrl-M. For example:
will replace the space after the word "word" with a line break across the whole file.
will replace the space after the word "word" with a line break across the whole file.
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