From: Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme Edit to remove lines
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 14:27:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+POUVhjMX8wsQbzg2o7u=gKk-YvgFbrk4_9Z-O_9hMb6Gp5DQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJUT6o4aBzB8ad51c3wAmitOHoo70nkzoJQX=voLjN1ixyLzCw@mail.gmail.com>
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x/^X.*\n/d
Or
x/^X/+-d
Away from a terminal so probably subtly wrong.
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 7:23 AM dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
wrote:
> given multi-line dot, spanning only part of a file, how do i construct
> an Edit command to remove lines matching certain regular expression?
>
> wanted to delete lines starting with one particular character; without
> leaving an empty line behind, thus Edit s/X.+//d is not sufficient.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-26 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-26 14:20 dexen deVries
2017-05-26 14:27 ` Paul Lalonde [this message]
2017-05-26 14:29 ` James A. Robinson
2017-05-26 15:07 ` dexen deVries
2017-05-26 16:33 ` Micah Stetson
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