Re: vi: count occurrences of a substring

> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 09:11:21 +1000
> From: Reuben ua Bríġ <u5644051@anu.edu.au>

> > Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2021 23:22:29 +0100
> > From: ropers <ropers@gmail.com>
>
> > It's still a little disconcerting to me how getting sed to play nice
> > with \n *from inside vi* still seems like a bridge too far
>
> easy peasy. to sed all spaces into newlines from nvi, enter

oops. this copies ^J after ^` seeing as there is the &

> :!sed 's/ /&^V^M/g;y/^V^M/\n/'
>
> echoed as
>
> :!sed 's/ /&^M/g;y/^M/\n/'
>
> but then it begs the question, why not open a new buffer and

this does what i said before

> :1,$s/ /^V^M/g
>
> echoed as
>
> :1,$s/ /^M/g