Re: vim can't find carriage returns

2011-05-24 Thread Eljay Love-Jensen
Hi JP Lew, Your discovery works great: :g/^$/d Depending what you consider a blank line, you may want: :g/^\s*$/d If you want to delete runs of blank lines over a threshhold, that can be done as well. One way to do it is a search-and-replace command like: :%s/\n\{2,\}/\r\r/ I'm not sure why I

Re: vim can't find carriage returns

2011-05-24 Thread Eljay Love-Jensen
Hi JP Lew, Frans Grotepass I suggest grabbing a good cheat sheet of the net... I have found this tutorial / cheat sheet website to be fantastic: http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html Not only great for getting up to speed in Vim, I still refer to it for the Vim

substitute Unicode characters

2011-05-16 Thread Eljay Love-Jensen
The Unicode font I am using for Vim works great. Except... I would like to use a private use area (PUA) alternative glyph for zero, which has a slash through it. I would like to use a private use area (PUA, non-BMP) alternative glyph for asterisk, which looks better for coding. Is there an