From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Requested function: just-one-empty-line() Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:50:04 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1223294124.550402@arno.fh-trier.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223296849 20487 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2008 12:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:40:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 06 14:41:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KmpPF-0001ne-MU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:41:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45047 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KmpOC-0005ew-6o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:40:40 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1223294142 1182 143.93.54.11 (6 Oct 2008 11:55:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:55:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-203-042.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163086 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58426 Archived-At: Nordlöw wrote: > I'm looking for a function just-one-empty-line(), or empty-lines() for > the multi-line-variant, that does kind of what just-one-space() does > but instead works on empty lines. Any suggestions? > > Example: > > pre;\n > \n > \n > post; > > is converted to > > pre;\n > \n > post; > > Thanks in advance, > Nordlöw ,----[ C-h f delete-blank-lines RET ] | delete-blank-lines is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'. | It is bound to C-x C-o. | (delete-blank-lines) | | On blank line, delete all surrounding blank lines, leaving just one. | On isolated blank line, delete that one. | On nonblank line, delete any immediately following blank lines. `---- -ap