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From: bard@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bard Bloom)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Removing blank lines
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Date: 14 Mar 88 15:24:54 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.

Replace-regexp ^J^J+ with ^J seems to work.

-- Bard