Re: [vile] deleting blank lines over a range

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 11 May 2011, address@hidden wrote:

> It would be preferable if force-blank-lines, or something like it, operated
> over a range, motion command or region.

agreed (this doesn't seem hard...)

> Or a more general solution would be to allow the g or v command to operate
> over a range: :<range>g/^$/d

yes... I don't recall it being discussed in a while - requires some
extension to the way things are parsed.  I'll revisit that.

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 04:37:14PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 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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