Re: [Bug-ed] Match empty lines?

[John Cowan]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 5:21 PM Simon Wilper <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi everybody,
>
> I would like to edit a document that contains some paragraphs separated by
> one
> empty line and insert text after each empty line.  Unfortunately neither
> the
> regex command /^$ nor /\`\' does match empty lines.
>

You want this (* is the prompt, use the P command to see it):

*g/^$/a\
text to be inserted
*

Now every blank line will be followed by a line containing "text to be
inserted".  If you want to insert more than one line, end every line except
the last one with a backslash.

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