Re: Re: paragraph marks

At 10:43 06/08/2012 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
>Am 06.08.2012 08:43, Carla Marion wrote:
>>I want to replace two paragraph endings punctuation marks by one, 
>>because I want to replace white lines.  How do I do that?
>
>I think Andreas might have meant replace
>^$^$
>with
>^$
>to reduce all the doubles with a single rather than to remove all 
>paragraph marks.

No: as usual, you have it wrong; he meant what he wrote.  The user 
wants to remove what she calls "white lines" - actually empty 
paragraphs.  The circumflex character anchors the pattern to the 
beginning of a paragraph and the dollar sign to the end of a 
paragraph.  So ^$ matches an empty paragraph.

Brian Barker