From: Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com>
Subject: Re: regexp to collapse multiple blank lines into one
Date: 12 Oct 2005 08:21:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bn71yqe.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10719.1128971211.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:33:50PM -0600, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
>
> >
> > In any case, replacing \(^ C-q C-j \)+ with \1 is 10 key strokes, which
> > is actually more typing than if you were to replace ^ C-q C-j + with C-q
> > C-j (6 keys).
> >
>
> Yes indeed. I didn't think of it. I just wrote the first think
> that came to my mind and it worked. About the keystrokes though I
> think that C-q shoud count for more than 1 keystroke; perhaps not 2
> keystrokes but 1.5 so your solution has really 8 keystrokes :).
So, in that case, is A 1.5 keystrokes while a is only 1?
Tim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-11 22:21 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
[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 [this message]
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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