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List:       vim
Subject:    Re: Delete lines which match a particular regex
From:       "Antoine J. Mechelynck" <antoine.mechelynck () belgacom ! net>
Date:       2005-02-22 2:12:21
Message-ID: 421A9505.2050300 () belgacom ! net
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Ovid wrote:
> Thanks Gavin,
> 
> That solved my problem perfectly.  Where in the docs would I be able to
> read more about this?  I tried ":help regex", but I'm not seeing it
> there.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ovid

Notice the command starts with ":g"? Try ":help :g", then if that isn't 
enough, follow the |links| from there.

HTH,
Tony.

> --- Gavin Tomlins <gavint@brainandbehaviour.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Ovid,
>>
>>To delete lines matching "XXX"
>>
>>:g/XXX/d
>>
>>To delete blank lines
>>
>>:g/^\s*$/d
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Gavin
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ovid [mailto:publiustemp-vimlist@yahoo.com] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:46 AM
>>To: vim@vim.org
>>Subject: Delete lines which match a particular regex
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Let's say that I have a file and I want to delete all lines in that
>>file which contain "XXX" or all blank lines, how would I do that?  In
>>other words, I don't want to just delete the data on a particular
>>line
>>or lines, but I'd like to have fewer lines when I'm done.  Using the
>>shell and grep and redirecting back to the file seems silly, so I'm
>>sure there's a way I can do this in vim, yes?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Ovid
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