Re: [Bug-ed] inserting a newline after a word in a line

[John Cowan]

Duke Normandin scripsit:

> I entered a bunch of text, but failed to realize that I needed to
> entered a newline in order to produce a newline. So what I have now,
> is one huge line. I want to break it up into various lines. I'm aware
> of the substitution command, like:
> 
> s/break_here/break_here\n/p
> 
> but the "\n" doesn't work in ed. Is there a way to do this?

Use a literal newline, like this:

s/break_here/break_here
/p
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