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Re: regexp to collapse multiple blank lines into one


From: Peter Dyballa
Subject: Re: regexp to collapse multiple blank lines into one
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:02:40 +0200


Am 10.10.2005 um 18:35 schrieb Kevin Rodgers:

>>C-M-% \(^C-qC-j\)+ RET \1 RET
>>
I'll admit, I don't understand why that solution works: it appears to


But it's so easy: it's exactly one newline between the parentheses! Outside is the plus. So up to many occurences of newline get replaced by exactly one.

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Greetings

  Pete

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