How do you insert a newline after every 80 characters in vim? -
i have long line of characters in vim. i'd insert newline after 80 characters. how do that?
:%s/.\{80}/&\r/g - %: process entire file
- s: substitute
- .: matches character
- {80}: matches every 80 occurrences of previous character (in case, character)
- &: match result
- \r: newline character
- g: perform replacement globally
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