How do you replace with a newline in VsCode Vim

Question

None of the suggestions found here work, nor does a search on issues in the repo turn up anything.

I'd like to replace all >< with >\r\n< inside a selection

'<,'>s/></?/g

what goes in place of the question mark?

I think there must be `\r`. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/71323/how-to-replace-a-character-by-a-newline-in-vim — Wiktor Stribiżew, Feb 05 '17 at 18:00
@WiktorStribiżew I tried that, as I said in the question, I tried the suggestions listed in the same place your link, and mine in the question point to. — Maslow, Feb 06 '17 at 16:28
@romainl Visual Studio Code's Vim Extension, also, you can find that information by putting your mouse over the tag in the question, also by clicking the tag. — Maslow, Feb 06 '17 at 16:29
@Maslow, the tag only mention VS Code itself, not a "Vim Extension". — romainl, Feb 06 '17 at 17:14
This appears broken. I opened a bug report https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/1575 — Ryan Horrisberger, Apr 25 '17 at 17:05

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '17 at 20:06

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Does this work for you?

:'<,'>s/></>\r</g

Are you on windows and trying to insert both (literal) \r (carriage return) and \n (new line) ?

answered Feb 05 '17 at 20:06

ffledgling

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That will work in Vim but not in VsCode Vim. Have you tried it yourself? – Shaun Luttin Feb 06 '17 at 02:24
@ShaunLuttin I haven't, I was trying to figure out what the problem is from OPs question, I don't have access to Vscod myself. – ffledgling Feb 06 '17 at 07:07
as @ShaunLuttin said, that works in most vim implementations but not the VsCode version – Maslow Feb 06 '17 at 16:30

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 18 '20 at 14:08

I just had success a moment ago moving asterisks to the start of a new line (i.e. replace asterisk chars with newline + asterisk) with:

:%s/\*/\r*/g

for clarity, that's:

:%s   (replace in whole file)
\*    (literal asterisk)
\r*   (new line followed by literal asterisk)
g     (operate on all matches on any given line)

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