[glug-t] Re: removing blank lines in emacs

On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 14:08 +0530, Vignesh Waran wrote:
>              There is a  'C' program which has many blank lines in it,
> how to remove all the blank lines with query-replace in emacs ?

M-x flush-lines RET ^$

flush-lines deletes all lines that matches the regular expression. and
the reg exp ^$ matches empty lines ie lines with only RET.

BTW what is the regexp to match a blank line? 

~vimal



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