Re: [vile] Is there something special about J[oin], or "why can't I do this?"

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Chris G wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:26:21PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > I have a file which has a series of CRLF sequences in that I want to
> > change to a comma followed by a space.
> >
> > When viewed in vile (as expected) the CRs appear as ^M so it seemed to
> > me that if I execute (on the command line, i.e. after entering :) the
> > following:-
> >
> >     g/
> > /J
> >
> > I should get what I want.  However it doesn't work, vile doesn't seem
> > to accept the J, it just echoes it and then refuses to accept any more
> > input.  Why isn't J acceptable there and, more to the point, how can I
> > do what I want to do?
> Oops, that ^M (a real CR) didn't work very well did it!  :-)
>
> The command sequence I'm entering is:-
>
>    :g/^M/J
>
> where the ^M above is actually entered as ^V^M.

...2nd reply (I'm slow).  The 'J' is a key-binding.  vile would be
looking for a name at that point (and almost all names are lowercase).
So a lowercase 'j' there would be the abbreviation for join.

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