Re: Line break without \n or \r?

Thank you Paul for your great suggestions. Even though I still don't quite understand why my command fails at seemingly random places, it is not important, and your command works beautifully for my purpose.

I know the second method you mentioned. But I prefer the first method because I don't want to manually go to every paragraph to join the lines.

Thanks a lot.
Paul.


On Saturday, April 6, 2013 3:17:01 AM UTC-4, Paul Isambert wrote:
> Hello Paul,
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> Paul a ï¿œcrit:
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> > I was puzzled by the second line break in the attached file. I want to
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> > connect all lines that are next to each other (ie there is no blank
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> > lines between them, the same way how tex defines a paragraph). So I
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> > issue the following command:
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> >
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> > :%s/\([^\\n]\)\n\([^\\n]\)/\1 \2/g
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> >
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> > However, the result is
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> >
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> > uuuu An
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> > by y
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> >
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> > Clearly there is something right after "An" that is not \n but produces
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> > a line break. I also tried to replace \n with \r in the command, but it
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> > does not work either. I tried various ways but could not find a reason
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> > why the above command fails at the second line.
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> This:
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> :%s/.\zs\_s\ze./ /g
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> works ok. To me, "[^\\n]" doesn't mean much ("[^\n]" would be better),
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> and anyway your original form corrected wouldn't work either for
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> one-character lines (since that character would be used by the pattern
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> to join the current line to the previous one, and couldn't be reused
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> to join the current line to the next one).
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> > I find this issue when I tried to connect all the lines in a texfile
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> > that forms a paragraph. There are always some lines that failed to be
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> > connected and I can't seea reason. Anyone has a clue about this issue?
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> A simpler way is to use "vipJ", meaning "select the current paragraph
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> and join the lines" (see ":help v_j").
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> Best,
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> Paul

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