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Search and Replace Control Characters In Vim

In vim, if you want to search and replace non-printable control characters (for example you have ^M scattered throughout your file and it's messing up an import) you can use ctrl+v+<char>. The ctrl+v allows you to type the control character, but you must hold down control for both of the key presses.

:%s/ctrl+v+M/

This would search and replace all non-printable ^M characters in your text.

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