Re: How to remove empty lines except of one

On Thursday, July 5, 2012 7:15:43 AM UTC-5, Gautam wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As for blank-ish lines (containing just whitespace), it might become
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> something like
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>  %s/^\(\s*\n\)\+/\r
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> I added this to my .vimrc as:</div>
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> command RemoveMultipleBlankLines %s/^\(\s*\n\)\+/\r</div>
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> </div></div></blockquote>Now &quot;:RemoveMultipleBlankLines&quot; works like it should except when my file has a blank line at the very end.
> In this case, I get 2 blank lines at the end.</div>
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> Any idea how I can prevent that?</div>
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> - Gautam</div>
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This replacement works for me:

%s/^\_s\+\n/\r

I'm not actually sure why your version doesn't work, but I see the same behavior.

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