On Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:56:49 AM UTC+8, rusi wrote: > Well it seems that we are considerably closer to a solution to the GG > double-spaced crap problem. > > > > Just wondering if someone can suggest a cleanup of the regexp part > > > > Currently I have (elisp) > > > > (defun clean-gg () > > (interactive) > > 1 (replace-regexp "^> *\n> *\n> *$" "-=\=-" nil 0 (point-max)) > > 2 (flush-lines "> *$" 0 (point-max)) > > 3 (replace-regexp "-=\=-" "" nil 0 (point-max))) > > > > Which I spell out as: > > > > 1. Replace triplets of empty lines of the form > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > with only 1 (because this is an actual blank line and not a GG-crap line) > > However then it gets mixed up with the others so put some strange string: > > "-=\=-" as replacement > > > > 2. Remove the pure > > > > > lines > > > > 3. Remove the strange string. > > > > Not very robust since the strange string could occur in the text. > > So what are the more proper regexp solution(s)?
Why not replace the triple "> " with blank directly? maybe looks like: (replace-regexp "^> *\n> *\n> *$" "" nil 0 (point-max) (Not fully sure whether your replace-regex could work with such format.) PS: this is python group, assume your question better post on Lisp or Regular Expression related groups. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
