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vi search/replace using a set

Hi,

I'm trying to do a global search/replace in vi using a set - I want to find every occurance of a carriage return followed by a character and replace it with a space. I've tried the following:

:%s/\n[a-z][A-Z]/ [a-z][A-Z]/g

It does the search ok, but it replaces the characters with the literal value "[a-z][A-Z]"

How do i escape the replace condition to use the set?

Thanks a million!

-Hud
 

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