Re: [9fans] Acme Edit to remove lines

You can also take advantage of x's default behavior of splitting the selection into lines and use g to select which you want: Edit x g/^X/d

Re: [9fans] Acme Edit to remove lines

thanks, that did the trick indeed.

Re: [9fans] Acme Edit to remove lines

You ought to be able to just add '\n' to the end of your expression in an 'x//' + 'd' command sequence. For example, "search the file for lines starting with [a-z] and delete the entire line" would be: Edit ,x/^[a-z].+\n/d On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 7:23 AM dexen deVries

Re: [9fans] Acme Edit to remove lines

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 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? > >

[9fans] Acme Edit to remove lines

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.