[ale] vi -- replace char with newline

[Cade Thacker]

How do you search/replace for the newline character in vi/vim. very simple
problem, I have a classpath

export CLASSPATH=classes.zip:cade.jar:bubba.jar:hello.jar

i want to make it

export CLASSPATH=classes.zip:\
cade.jar:\
bubba.jar:\
hello.jar

So I want to search for all ':' and replace them with ':\<newline>' so I
try

:%s/:/:\\\n/g 

this does not work, 

can sombody tell me how to search for special characters (ie tabs,
newlines, etc)

Thanks.

--cade

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