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Matching Newlines in Vim

Oct 14, 2009, 16:33 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Juliet Kemp)

"It's pleasingly straightforward: All you do is to add _ in front of the character class you want to match. This will then match the character class plus newline. So to search for a word character:

/w
/ (from command mode) is the search command in vim, and w indicates a word character. So, to search for a word character or newline:"

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