Re: from the old vi faq - squeezing blank/empty lines

> * 2018-09-30 Eli the Bearded:
> > :v/./$s/$/<ctrl-v><enter>./|'';/./-1j|$d
> > Replaces multiple blank lines with just one blank line.
> * 2018-09-30 Mikolaj Machowski <[2]mikmach@gmail.com>:
> > What's wrong with: :%s/\n\n\+/\r\r/
> * Tony Mechelynck <[3]antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> [2018-10-01
> 15:06]:
> > or with :%s/^\_s*\n/\r
> > Variation: the same, plus suppress end-of-line whitespace:
> > :%s/\_s*\n/\r
> > (both of these use the fact that * means "as many as possible")
> i always used this one:
> Â :g/^$/,/./-j

nice to see that vim makes it possible to do the same thing in different
ways

nice to see here the possibilities shared, so that we can learn from
eachother

TNX

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