From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Colin S. Miller" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Delete every other line Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:37:49 +0100 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <4abf5c9e$0$280$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254055320 20272 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2009 12:42:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:42:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 27 14:41:53 2009 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 1Mrt4a-0005wy-AD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:41:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57225 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mrt4Z-0006wF-NC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:41:51 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.net.uni-c.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090706) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.56.58.189 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=Y[c[5<:?ThgCf4eYcI3F5hYSB=nbEKnkkVQfQk22Xdg`5fdD?L8VmBhOOn[7LY1L_eQScK68eBi5g; QNS\SSPXng=`B>8HMEIDhP; BoZQhlG:`PA4NFEGY@8o Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173376 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:68492 Archived-At: 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 -- Replace the obvious in my email address with the first three letters of the hostname to reply.