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Re: delete whitespace lines with replace-regexp


From: weber
Subject: Re: delete whitespace lines with replace-regexp
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:49:53 -0000
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On 12 jul, 03:53, "oliver" <oliver_baum...@nospam.justemail.net>
wrote:
> hello
>
> i want to use query-replace-regexp or replace-regexp to delete all lines
> contain only whitespace.
>
> so i tried the the command with the search regexp "^\s-*$^J" (with ^J as in
> ctrl-q ctrl-j) and an empty replacement. nothing gets replaced.
>
> what's wrong?
>
> thanks, olli

Well, it looks like you can't use '$' unless on the end of the regexp.
Anyway I tried with ^\s-*^J and it does what you want!
Sorry for the incomplete answer,
-weber



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