Insert the carriage return character in vim

unix vim special-characters
Andrey Vlasovskikh picture Andrey Vlasovskikh · Oct 18, 2009 · Viewed 90.5k times · Source

I'm editing a network protocol frame stored a file in Unix (\n newlines). I need to insert the carriage return character (U+000D aka \r). When I try to paste it from the clipboard ("+p) or type it using Ctrl+Shift+u-000d, the linefeed is inserted (U+000A).

What is the right way to do it?

Answer

R Samuel Klatchko picture R Samuel Klatchko · Oct 18, 2009

Type: ctrl-v ctrl-m

On Windows Use: ctrl-q ctrl-m

Ctrl-V tells vi that the next character typed should be inserted literally and ctrl-m is the keystroke for a carriage return.

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