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From: Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org>
Subject: Re: repexp to collapse multiple blank lines into one
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 13:44:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051009134454.GR29712@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v082f.11337$vw6.9392@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 12:27:07PM +0000, B. T. Raven wrote:
> Is there a way to use M-C-% to flush extra blank lines from a buffer.
> Something like:
> Query replace regexp:  ^$+ [which of course doesn't work, presumably
> because $ has to be last]
> with:      C-j
> 

The following seems to work

C-M-% \(^C-qC-j\)+ RET \1 RET

Provided of course that your lines are really blank and do not contain 
any spaces, tabs etc.
 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ed
> 

-- 
 There is no national science just as there is no national
multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
         -- Anton Checov

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-09 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-09 12:27 repexp to collapse multiple blank lines into one B. T. Raven
2005-10-09 12:59 ` Friedrich Laher
2005-10-09 13:01 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-10-09 13:44 ` Neon Absentius [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.10556.1128865819.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-09 18:36   ` regexp " B. T. Raven
2005-10-10 16:35     ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-10-10 17:28       ` Neon Absentius
2005-10-10 18:33         ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-10-10 19:06           ` Neon Absentius
     [not found]           ` <mailman.10719.1128971211.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-11 22:21             ` Tim X
2005-10-12  1:14               ` Neon Absentius
2005-10-10 18:02       ` Peter Dyballa
2005-10-10 20:59 ` repexp " David Hansen
2005-10-11  2:09   ` Neon Absentius

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