You ought to be able to just add '\n' to the end of your expression in an 'x//' + 'd' command sequence. For example, "search the file for lines starting with [a-z] and delete the entire line" would be:
Edit ,x/^[a-z].+\n/d On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 7:23 AM dexen deVries <dexen.devr...@gmail.com> wrote: > given multi-line dot, spanning only part of a file, how do i construct > an Edit command to remove lines matching certain regular expression? > > wanted to delete lines starting with one particular character; without > leaving an empty line behind, thus Edit s/X.+//d is not sufficient. > >
