Re: silly regexp-replace question: how to delete empty lines

[Thomas L Roche <tlroche@us.ibm.com>]

"leo" Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:11:08 +1100
> in a buffer like

>   text is here
>   and here and
>   here

>   further text is here

>   an the endtext

> i want to delete the two empty lines by an regexp-replace.

Umm ... do you know that you don't need a regexp? You can just do

> M-x replace-string
> C-q C-j C-q C-j
> C-q C-j

That being said,

> M-x replace-regexp
> C-q C-j C-q C-j
> C-q C-j

also works ... but you're not really replacing regexp, just a fixed
string.