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

[Chris G]

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.

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Chris Green