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From: gast@maui.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast)
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Subject: Re: Global Empty Line Removal in vi?
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Date: 28 Jan 91 01:41:57 GMT
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In article <1991Jan25.182043.10324@cs.uiuc.edu> joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) writes:

>>But using 1G!Gcat -s is easier.

>What a pain to do such a simple thing in vi. 

>ISPF solution is 

>exclude blank lines
>delete all exculded lines
            ^^^^^^^^

Why do you say that?  1G!Gcat -s is 11 characters including the return.
Your solution (if I counted correctly) is 46 characters including the
returns.  That means that your solution is almost 4 times as long.

Further, your solution is not correct.  You typed ``exculded'' instead
of ``excluded.''  While anyone can make a mistake, the more typing necessary,
the more likely it is that there will be a mistake.

This newsgroup is primarily devoted to Unix editors.  If you think that
many people want to discuss ISPF, why not start alt.editors.ispf?  Even
when I have to use a PC clone, I use vi.

David Gast
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