From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 7 23:15:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F12106566C for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 23:15:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE6A8FC08 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 23:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n87NEn3h084731; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 16:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 16:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 16:15:33 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Kalle =?iso-8859-15?Q?M=F8ller?= Message-ID: <20090907231533.GB15330@thought.org> References: <20090906003651.GA7388@thought.org> <8250ac3f0909062355g69a1cf5cj847e84aaee79b0c2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <8250ac3f0909062355g69a1cf5cj847e84aaee79b0c2@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:15:39 -0000 On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:55:44AM +0200, Kalle M?ller wrote: > I know its not in commandline, but in vim (maybe even vi) you could just > /\n\n\n > > This would find new lines... And you could jump between them with n.. > > and :set ruler so you can find linenumber > DIdn't think of this, but it doesn't seem to work in vi or vim. i think i've got vim set to vi-mode. anyway, the awk script that mark willson posted works. next time i'll put in something like XXXXXBREAKXXXXX for my v-breaks. gary > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several > > newlines to indicate a > > jump in time, or topic, or mood, or <>. i have lost these > > vertical spacing > > in all but my original draft. can i use grep somehow to find these > > extra newlines? > > > > if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?! > > > > tia, > > > > gary > > > > > > > > -- > > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service > > Unix > > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > > The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > -- > > Med Venlig Hilsen > > Kalle R. Møller -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php