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Re: silly regexp-replace question: how to delete empty lines
From: |
leo |
Subject: |
Re: silly regexp-replace question: how to delete empty lines |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:53:31 +1100 |
thanks peter
now i recall: i guess, the fact that "^[C-j]" works but "^$[C-j]" doesn't,
is kind of a regexp bug/feature in emacs, isn't it?
cheers, leo
"Peter Lee" <pete_lee@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> >>>> leo writes:
>
> leo> so i tried (replace-regexp "^$ " "ghdfg" nil nil nil) where the
> leo> linefeed was type as C-q C-j. but it doesn't find anything.
>
> The following works.
>
> (replace-regexp "^
> " "blank line
> " nil nil nil)
>
>
> ---------------------
> text is here
> and here and
> here
>
> further text is here
>
> an the endtext
>
> ---------------------
>