From: Friedrich Laher <fritz.laher@schmieder-laher.de>
Subject: Re: repexp to collapse multiple blank lines into one
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 14:59:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43491432.2070006@schmieder-laher.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v082f.11337$vw6.9392@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>
you could run until search fail replacing 2 newlines by one
B. T. Raven wrote:
>Is there a way to use M-C-% to flush extra blank lines from a buffer.
>Something like:
>Query replace regexp: ^$+ [which of course doesn't work, presumably
>because $ has to be last]
>with: C-j
>
>I know about C-x C-o but that's interactive rather than batch mode.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ed
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-09 12:59 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 [this message]
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
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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