Per Steve Kirkendall in comp.editors, this works:
:g/\s/j
One must admire the beauty and simplicity of this.
On 11/25/00, 03:13:48PM -0500, John P. Verel wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I have a vim file which, in general, resembles this:
> Hello
> world
> Hello
> world
>
> I want to concatenate Hello and world. fmt won't do because Hello ends with a
> newline character.
>
> I've tried the following (in vim 5.7), which does not work:
>
> :g/\s*/!!tr '\n' ' '
>
> The ex global command locates the lines with the white space, but the tr
> command won't translate the newline to a space. The man page for tr shows \n
> as the special character for a newline.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> TIA
>
> John
