Actually you could search for any present character on the line. For
example:
:g/./j
:g/^/j
:g/$/j
:g/[a-z]/j
would all work
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David
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "davidturetsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Mutt User List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 10:17 PM
> Subject: Re: OT (sort of): VIM/ex/tr question
>
>
> > :g/$/j
> >
> > worked for me
> >
> > David
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John P. Verel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Mutt User List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 8:36 PM
> > Subject: Re: OT (sort of): VIM/ex/tr question
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> >
>
