Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Re: How to remove empty lines except of one

On 07/04/12 20:58, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> I tried things like
>
> :s/^\r\r\r/\r/g
>
> but with no success...

For some reason (legacy?), Vim uses \n on the left side and \r on
the right side, so you want something like

:%s/\n\{2,}/\r

optionally tweaking the "2" and the number of "\r"s for your
particular use-case

-tim


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