On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Ben Fritz wrote:
On Sep 13, 1:48 pm, Ben Fritz wrote:
On Sep 13, 5:15 am, Drew Neil wrote:
Suppose I run "ayip to yank the following lines into register 'a':
one
two
three
When I use the `:reg a` command to inspect the contents of the
register, it shows newlines as ^J, like this:
--- Registers ---
"a one^Jtwo^Jthree^J
But if I use <c-r>a to paste the contents of that register at the
command line, the newlines are represented as ^M, like this:
/<c-r>a
expands to:
/one^Mtwo^Mthree^M
But, this also happens in version 6.1.5 (which happens to be installed
on a Solaris server here) so if it's a bug it's a very old one.
Also in version 5.5.
It would appear this is may be intentional. But I cannot imagine why.
^M == \r CR carriage return
^J == \n LF line feed
So, I think it's what's described at:
:help CR-used-for-NL
or
:help sub-replace-special
Maybe not the right explanation(s)... but I think it's the same reason:
\n sometimes means <NUL>, sometimes <NL>
\r sometimes means <NL>, sometimes <CR>
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Best,
Ben H
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