Join all lines with tabs inserted (vim)

Question

I have a tab delimited file (one line). I can easily enough replace the tabs with new lines so that I can see what fields are in what position

:%s/\t/\r/g

How can I do the inverse, after I've edited the fields? I could record a macro:

Js<tab>Esc

And then repeat it all the way down - but is there an easier way?

Answer 1

How about this:

:%s/\n/\t/

Answer 2

You can use s to replace newlines with tabs, basically the reverse of the operation you used to replace the tabs with newlines:

:%s/\n/\t/