On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:35:56 PM UTC-5, Bee wrote: > On Jul 18, 12:46 pm, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:27:42 PM UTC-5, Bee wrote: > > > This will collapse multiple blank lines, > > > remove trailing white space, and > > > leave only one blank line at the end of file. > > > > > %s-\_s\+$-\r > > > > > Bill > > > > I found the problem with this one. :help /$ indicates that the $ is > zero-width, so the end of line is not included in the match, therefore on the > two blank lines at the beginning of the file, only the first is included in > the match. > > > > So, this works exactly as I think it should: > > > > %s-\_s\+\n-\r > > > > Note this is almost identical to my first proposed solution, except that > it is missing the beginning of line anchor. I'm not sure what makes it > fail with the ^ in place. > > osx terminal vim 7.3.584 > > %s-\_s\+\n-\r > > Removes ALL blank lines, > rather than collapsing multiple blank lines into one 'blank' line. > > I still want one blank line between 'paragraphs'.
Oh right...that's why the ^ was there in the first place. Now I remember :-) So, it's still a special case if the first or last line is blank. Instead of removing all blank lines, it leaves one blank line in its place at the beginning and end. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
