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From: jr@PEBBLES.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: A regexp for blank lines
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Date: 14 Mar 88 03:53:43 GMT
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>> A specific way of doing what you want with blank lines is to remove all
>> occurrences of the string ^J^J (i.e.  a blank line consists of the
>> string newline-newline)

Ahem ... removing them would glue the surrounding non-blank lines
together.  You have to replace occurences of ^J^J with ^J.  If there
are stretches of more than one blank line, you may have to do this
more than once on the buffer.

/jr
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