How to add line break in vim script

Question

I am a beginner in vim.

The following code is just a piece of code that i have. How to add line break between "just" and "an".

call append(line('.') - 1, 'This' .'is' .'just' . "\r" . 'an' . selected_content . 'example')

This code is not working. and got junk like (^M)

Luc Hermitte · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-01 14:12:47Z

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Split your string into a |List|, and then, it'll work.

call append('.', ['This' .'is' .'just',  'an' . selected_content . 'example'])

If as I suspect the string is built, then is won't be difficult to use a list instead of a string in your code. Otherwise, you'll need to use split(line, "\n")

edited Dec 1, 2015 at 14:12

answered Dec 1, 2015 at 12:04

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