On 2/11/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been having fun, playing with regular expressions in vi. But I'd
like to do more.
How can I do a search that regards line breaks as if they were a space?
If that's not easy, then how can I replace all line breaks with a space
except for line breaks or double line breaks preceding any line that
begins with "^"?
I have a text file that has been line wrapped at about 80 characters.
Each real line begins with the "^". Each wrapped line does not. And
each line that begins with "^" is preceded by a blank line.
Text that I want to search for (or replace) can wrap around these line
breaks, but not around the "^".
You might be better off if you first processed the test file to rejoin
the split lines.
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