Re: regexp to collapse multiple blank lines into one

[Neon Absentius]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:21:29AM +1000, Tim X wrote:
> Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:33:50PM -0600, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > In any case, replacing \(^ C-q C-j \)+ with \1 is 10 key strokes, which
> > > is actually more typing than if you were to replace ^ C-q C-j + with C-q
> > > C-j (6 keys).
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes indeed.  I didn't think of it.  I just wrote the first think
> > that came to my mind and it worked.  About the keystrokes though I
> > think that C-q shoud count for more than 1 keystroke; perhaps not 2
> > keystrokes but 1.5 so your solution has really 8 keystrokes :).
> 
> So, in that case, is A 1.5 keystrokes while a is only 1?
> 

Yes.  Or maybe 1.3 since A is somewhat easier to type than C-a ;)

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