I have a gigantic file (millions of lines long), and I want to make it all one line. There is ONE \n at the end of every line.
The way I have been removing these line breaks is: 1,$s/\n// This takes extremely long when $ becomes larger than 15000. In fact my computer runs out of memory. I think the problem is that it's searching through thousands of characters of "\n" What might make the situation easier for me is the fact that i KNOW where the \n 's are located, so I don't really need to "search" for them. However, I don't know a vim command to remove \n from the end of every line (other than the command above). I should also be able to highlight the \n 's using the visual block (they show up yellow on my screen), and remove them by pressing x ... but pressing x doesn't seem to do anything to the \n 's ... it only removes non-special characters. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/better-way-to-remove-%5Cn-tp24688299p24688299.html Sent from the Vim - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
