Delete every other line

Delete every other line

[James]

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Is there a way to deleting blank unnecessarily double spaced blank lines in
a buffer. "delete-blank-lines" doesn't do what I want.

Cheers,
James

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Re: Delete every other line

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 14:39, James <ja.lira0@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to deleting blank unnecessarily double spaced blank lines in
> a buffer. "delete-blank-lines" doesn't do what I want.

It is not clear what you want IMO, but perhaps flush-lines or
replace-string will help. Could you give an example?

    Juanma

Re: Delete every other line

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.09.2009 um 14:39 schrieb James:

> Is there a way to deleting blank unnecessarily double spaced blank  
> lines in
> a buffer.

Do you mean replace-regexp ^[<TAB><SPC>]+C-qC-j with nothing?

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Re: Delete every other line

[Colin S. Miller]

James wrote:
> Is there a way to deleting blank unnecessarily double spaced blank lines 
> in a buffer. "delete-blank-lines" doesn't do what I want.
> 
> Cheers,
> James
James,
Ctrl-Home
M-x replace-regexp RET
C-q C-j C-q C-j + RET
C-q C-j RET

will replace two-or-more end-of-line characters with
a single end-of-line, for the entire buffer.

C-q allows a special character to be entered literally (from the keyboard),
C-j is end-of-line. + means one-or-more of the previous character (here the last
C-j).

HTH,
Colin S. Miller

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Re: Delete every other line

[Alexander Katovsky]

M-x flush-lines <RET> ^$ <RET>