Re: [vile] deleting blank lines over a range

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Paul Fox wrote:

> address@hidden wrote:
> > I see that the v and g commands only operate over the entire file and I can
> > use deblank for individual lines but is there a way to delete empty lines as
> > specified via a range or the selection?
>
> i don't believe so.  i've wanted that a few times myself.  the closest
> you can get is, do it once, then hold the '.' key down.  :-)
>
> that command came pretty much directly from uemacs, and has never
> been converted or offered in an operator form.

Offhand, I'm curious what a pure-vi syntax might be to delete blank lines
in a range (since that would make a pattern prompt somewhere in the
command).

I see "forceblank" is what "deblank" used to be.

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