 Tip #1487: Spaces are my enemies..
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January 23, 2007 23:43 |
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iGeek |
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I have this document filled up with spaces, as lines, and blanks at the end of each line.
Eliminate empty lines: v/\S/d
Eliminate spaces at the beginning of each line: %s/\s\+$//
Eliminate spaces at the end of the each line:%s/\s\+$//
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Anonymous,
January 27, 2007 4:04
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| Is there any way to edit the tip, I want to edit the beginning of line part..
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[email protected],
January 24, 2007 21:47
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| The beginning pattern probably should be different from the ending one; remove the $.
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Anonymous,
January 24, 2007 23:09
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It should be:
Eliminate spaces at the beginning of each line: %s/^\s\+//
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stATistic.org,
January 26, 2007 1:30
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| In addition, people who are doing lots of editing where spaces are important should read the help for the 'list' option. It displays $ at eol, ^I for tabs, and such. You can configure what characters it uses with 'listchars'.
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stATistic.org,
January 25, 2007 5:57
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| Just in case anyone is confused by the above, all of the suggested commands are : commands, not normal-mode keybindings. So you should do :%s/patterns// and :v/\S/d (note the leading colons). Missing the colons off would have hilarious consequences.
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Anonymous,
January 29, 2007 6:31
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At this time, I do not believe there is a way to edit your tip.
Just make a comment to the tip.
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