Re: How to remove empty lines except of one

On 05/07/12 03:58, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (using vim v.:7.3.584 under Gentoo-Linux with most features set on)
>
> I tried things like
>
> :s/^\r\r\r/\r/g
>
> but with no success...
>
> How can I reduce a bunch of empty lines to one single empty line?
>
> Best regards,
> mcc
>
>
>

In addition to all that has already been said, maybe (untested)

:%s/^\n*$/\r/

would work too? (replacing any number of line breaks, as many as
possible, between a start-of-line and an end-of-line, by one line break).

One of the good things with Vim is that often there are many solutions
to a single problem.


Best regards,
Tony.
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