Adding Line Break After pattern in VIM

A substitution would work nicely.

:%s/}/\0\r/g

Replace } with the whole match \0 and a new line character \r.
or

:%s/}/&\r/g

Where & also is an alternative for the whole match, looks a bit funny though in my opinion. Vim golfers like it because it saves them a keystroke 🙂

\0 or & in the replacement part of the substitution acts as a special character. During the substitution the whole string that was matched replaces the \0 or the & character in the substitution.

We can demonstrate this with a more complex search and replace –

Which witch is which?

Apply a substitution –

:s/[wW][ih][ti]ch/The \0/g

Gives –

The Which The witch is The which?

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