x/^X.*\n/d Or x/^X/+-d Away from a terminal so probably subtly wrong. On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 7:23 AM dexen deVries <dexen.devr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> given multi-line dot, spanning only part of a file, how do i construct > an Edit command to remove lines matching certain regular expression? > > wanted to delete lines starting with one particular character; without > leaving an empty line behind, thus Edit s/X.+//d is not sufficient. > >
