JP Lew wrote on 24/05/2011 08:14 AM:
Hi there:
No matter which document I'm editing, whenever I search for a carriage
return like this:
/\r
I get the following error message:
E486: Pattern not found: \r
It's puzzling because Vim is matching other character classes like \t
and \n
Thank you John, Frans, and Albie!
your answers were timely, educational, and helped me solve my problem—much
appreciated. For the record I am using Unix (Mac OS X).
I've only been using Vim for a week now, but with every passing day am more
and more impressed by its power.
My original problem
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
On Tue, 24 May 2011 01:17:08 -0700
JP Lew jplew...@gmail.com wrote:
I've only been using Vim for a week now, but with every passing day
am more and more impressed by its power.
And it is only the first week :D Boy, you have no idea how good this
will still get!! The real fun starts after
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
On Tue, 24 May 2011 08:43:49 -0500
Eljay Love-Jensen eljay...@gmail.com wrote:
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:
On May 24, 5:31 am, Eljay Love-Jensen eljay...@gmail.com wrote:
There are a lot of powerful editors available. Vim is more than a powerful
editor. Vim is zen editing. Vim lets me become one with my keyboard and
edit my document; all the while the editor is not a distracting interface
but
Hi Jean-Rene!
On Di, 24 Mai 2011, Jean-Rene David wrote:
* JP Lew [2011.05.24 04:20]:
My original problem was that I wanted to delete all the blank lines in my
document.
By the way, you would have gotten immediate answers if you had asked
that to begin with. As a matter of fact it is a
On 24/05/11 14:31, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:
[...]
I'm not sure why I have to search FOR multiple \n and replace WITH the
\r. That may be a vi-thing, a Vim-thing, or a quirk / detail of my
platform (Windows 7, using the prebuilt gVim, using :set ff=unix line
endings). Hmmm, I never thought
On May 24, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 24/05/11 14:31, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:
[...]
I'm not sure why I have to search FOR multiple \n and replace WITH the
\r. That may be a vi-thing, a Vim-thing, or a quirk / detail of my
platform (Windows 7, using the prebuilt gVim, using
On 25/05/11 02:08, Dave Land wrote:
[...]
PS: While reading up on this, I discovered something new, at least to me:
Save typing by using \zs and \ze to set the start and end of a pattern.
For example, instead of:
:s/Copyright 2007 All Rights Reserved/Copyright 2008 All Rights Reserved/
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