Re: repexp to collapse multiple blank lines into one

[Friedrich Laher]

you could run until search fail replacing 2 newlines by one

B. T. Raven wrote:

> Is there a way to use M-C-% to flush extra blank lines from a buffer.
> Something like:
> Query replace regexp:  ^$+ [which of course doesn't work, presumably
> because $ has to be last]
> with:      C-j
>
> I know about C-x C-o but that's interactive rather than batch mode.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
>
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