will trillich wrote:
How to do this in vim:On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:04:48AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:14PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote:I'm trying to format the debian install manual (text version) for printing and I'm trying to save a couple of trees. Is there an easy way to strip the line breaks so the text will come out unformatted? This way I can reduce the font and print whole pages of itty bitty debian install text which, in my own sick way, helps me find info I need quicker...vim is really powerful once you get into the macro language (there's probably a way to program a prime number generator in there somewhere) but for the standard user interaction it's a LINE-ORIENTED beast. you can split a line here to make two lines, you can join two lines together to make one big one -- but for the most part you can't massage text across lines. vim is great, but it has its stumbling blocks...
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remember what line number is the last line, call it N
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<number N> J
In general, you can put a large number before most commands to do the command that many times...[For this command vim doesn't like it if you try to join more lines than exist]
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