vim replace character to \n

Question

I need replace all ; to \n , but :%s/;/\n/gc not works

score 53 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '10 at 07:18

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When searching: \n is newline, \r is CR (carriage return = Ctrl-M = ^M)
When replacing: \r is newline, \n is a null byte (0x00).

answered Oct 19 '10 at 07:18

Eugene Yarmash

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doh! the first thing about vim that i hate. i love vim ... but wow ... this one is evil. – underrun Jul 23 '13 at 14:05
Is there any way to change this behaviour? I want \n to be LF and \r to be CR - *always*. – Bell Dec 23 '16 at 03:29
Was trying to match multi-line stuff, including newlines, and replace them with matching groups containing newlines. That wasn't working, as I was getting the whole \n vs \r problem. The only way I've found to get around this is to replace \n with some improbable sequence, do whatever regex stuff I was trying to do (using the improbable sequence in place of where I would've used \n), then replace the improbable sequence with \r. – Meower68 Dec 31 '19 at 23:53

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '10 at 06:38

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You need to use \r as the replacement instead: :%s/;/\r/gc

answered Oct 19 '10 at 06:38

too much php

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