Re: How do I search for blank lines in vi?

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From: Mick Farmer
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 12:31

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Hi,

Timothy asks how to do this.  Doesn't anyone learn about
regular expressions any more?

Try :/^$/

which means go to the command line (:), and search for a
line (/.../) containing no characters between the start of
line (^) and the end of line ($). 

Regards,

Mick

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Subject: Re: How do I search for blank lines in vi?
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