From: "leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com>
Subject: silly regexp-replace question: how to delete empty lines
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:11:08 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c23bnr$1u62$1@otis.netspace.net.au> (raw)
hi there
in a buffer like
text is here
and here and
here
further text is here
an the endtext
i want to delete the two empty lines by an regexp-replace.
so i started with _finding_ the lines. that's easy: "^$" is the regexp. but
obviouly (replace-regexp "^$" "ghdfg" nil nil nil) does nothing.;-)
SO in order to delete empty lines (i.e. to replace it with "") i have to
find the empty line _plus_ the linefeed.
so i tried (replace-regexp "^$
" "ghdfg" nil nil nil) where the linefeed was type as C-q C-j. but it
doesn't find anything.
any idea?
thanks, leo
next reply other threads:[~2004-03-03 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-03 1:11 leo [this message]
2004-03-03 6:25 ` silly regexp-replace question: how to delete empty lines Barry Margolin
2004-03-03 6:36 ` Sacha Chua
2004-03-03 20:11 ` Peter Lee
2004-03-03 23:53 ` leo
2004-03-04 1:31 ` Johan Bockgård
2004-03-04 10:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-03-03 23:16 ` Joe Fineman
[not found] <200403040341.i243ftF7381474@e1.ny.us.ibm.com>
2004-03-04 4:07 ` Thomas L Roche
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