Re: How to remove empty lines except of one

On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:27:42 PM UTC-5, Bee wrote:
> This will collapse multiple blank lines,
> remove trailing white space, and
> leave only one blank line at the end of file.
>
> %s-\_s\+$-\r
>
> Bill

But this one fails to collapse the blank lines at the *beginning* of the file! I don't see what's special about the beginning of the file which would prevent it from matching.

I don't know whether this is a bug, or if we all have a subtle misunderstanding of \_s.

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