Carl’s notes

I just read somewhere that when writing LaTeX documents it’s useful to have each sentence on a new line. My current document only has (double) line breaks between paragraphs. Here is how to use Vim to insert line breaks after each full stop.

In command mode press ‘:’ then enter s/\.\s\+/\.^M/. The ^M character represents a line break and must be inserted with CTRL-V Enter. Press enter to run the substitution on the current line. Add a percent character to run the substitution on the whole file: %s/\.\s\+/\.^M/.

Some more useful commands in a SunWorld article from 1997.