oops, sorry, scratch that first method. Wont work in vim. The second one works for sure! bye Aravind p.s: Yes, I will test my solutions before I send them out next time. sometime around Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:07:56PM -0500 Aravind Gottipati wrote: > Hi, > > This works in vim, not sure about other vi flavours. > > %s/^REF/REF/ > > This should work in most vi's > > %s/^REF/ REF/ > > thats a CTRL-M > > HTH > aravind > > sometime around Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:35:36PM -0500 > Jonathan Hutchins wrote: > > Ok, I have a text file where the line breaks got stripped, but each line > > that needs to break begins with the same sequence. How do I tell vi "find > > 'REF' replace with 'REF'? > > > > > > -- > Let me put it this way: today is going to be a learning experience > -- Anonymous > (seen on slashdot) -- Let me put it this way: today is going to be a learning experience -- Anonymous (seen on slashdot)