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- From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
- Subject: Re: How do I search for blank lines in vi?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.053454.415@dmp.csiro.au>
- Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:34:54 GMT
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- mick@dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Mick Farmer) writes:
-
- >Hi,
-
- >Timothy asks how to do this. Doesn't anyone learn about
- >regular expressions any more?
-
- >Try :/^$/
-
- >which means go to the command line (:), and search for a
- >line (/.../) containing no characters between the start of
- >line (^) and the end of line ($).
-
- >Regards,
-
- >Mick
-
- [Sarcasm mode on]
-
- Yes Tim, why are you wasting all this
- bandwidth with vi questions? Don't you know
- that the "i" in vi stands for intuitive?
-
- Everything is so damm obvious in vi it is
- no fun to use at all. In fact, most new
- users on our UNIX box complain that vi
- is too easy to use - so I give them PICO -
- that PICO command menu at the bottom of the screen
- just goes right against the concept of user
- friendliness that vi pioneered..
-
- Summary:-
- As vi is the highpoint of our civilization,
- its all down hill from here.
- (too bad if you missed it)
-
- End of story.
-
- [Sarcasm mode off]
-
- Sorry for the above, I have to wait 90 minutes
- for Roger Ramjet and need something to do.
- (Problem about Micks solution is that it actually
- makes sense - bit of a worry)
-
- Lachlan.
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- "Postman Pat.... Postman Pat.........
- Postman Pat and his black
- and white cat, all the birds are singing, Pat feels
- he is a really happy man."
- (85 minutes till Roger Ramjet)
- --
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