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From: Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 14:27:07 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme Edit to remove lines
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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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x/^X.*\n/d<br>Or<br>x/^X/+-d<br><br>Away from a terminal so probably subtly=
 wrong.<br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr">On Fri, May 26, 2017=
 at 7:23 AM dexen deVries &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:dexen.devries@gmail.com">de=
xen.devries@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_qu=
ote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex=
">given multi-line dot, spanning only part of a file, how do i construct<br=
>
an Edit command to remove lines matching certain regular expression?<br>
<br>
wanted to delete lines starting with one particular character; without<br>
leaving an empty line behind, thus Edit s/X.+//d is not sufficient.<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div>

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