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 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 about that discrepancy before. The help on it...
:help sub-replace-special
...doesn't really explain the discrepancy. My speculation is that the
discrepancy probably has to do with Vim ingesting a text file as strings,
and those lines are stripped of the line endings and are '\0' terminated.
Which would make the discrepancy an implementation detail.
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 rather is unobtrusive.
Happy Vim-ming!
Eljay
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