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From: ndh@stl.stc.co.uk (Neale D Hind )
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Subject: Re: Global Empty Line Removal in vi?
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Date: 29 Jan 91 14:03:59 GMT
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My contribution to the great global line removal debate:

From within vi use -

:g/^[spacetabformfeed]*$/d
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This deletes any line that contains any combination of any number of
only linefeeds, tabs, spaces and formfeed characters.

For spacetabformfeed use the spacebar, tab key or Ctrl+I, Ctrl+V Ctrl+L
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Neale D. Hind - (N.D.Hind@stl.stc.co.uk)