Re: getting rid of multiple consecutive blanks ?

Quoting Paul Nevai <[email protected]>:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:40:42PM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote:

>> horizontal spaces, yes, tabs, perhaps
>>
>> search/regep that Paul suggested clears the above ones
>>
>> LF and CR, yes
>
> See "visibilator" in pedit's manual, do an visibilator job, then do a REGEXP
> search/replace job on the visibilated text, then do an de-visibilator job
> again.
>
> Am I too terse?
>
> All=my=best, Paul
>

  You guys have solved it before I even awoke!  Up late last night,  
thus lazy Sunday morning.  Voytek, the little task I set for you is  
now unnecessary and you can skip it since you are going after all the  
whitespace possibilities anyway.  I was trying to see if we could pare  
it down to make pScripting the task easier.
  There are some  mildly gnarly event-queue issues with scripting  
pSearch runs and it may be better for you to just do it manually.  I'm  
going to experiment with pScripting the visibilator process ala Paul.   
In the meantime, if your text is in peditPro memo, the following  
pScript will clear all linefeeds (/p10) and replace them with a single  
space (/p32).  It will only run in pedit.  The /tap in dlF2 allows  
placing space (/p32) as the replacement string.  Although in general I  
try to avoid taps, since this does work on my Treo and the coordinates  
are likely to be the same for all Palms, it should work for you. I  
used it instead of "/xEpro >" to avoid difficulties with selection of  
saved replacement strings.

{delete LF pPro::
/xEpro f
/xEpro T/xEpro W
/p10
/$script$[@@dLF2@@]}
{dLF2::
/tap i[080,080]
/$script$[@@dLF3@@]}
{dLF3::
/p32
/xEpro f A
/$script$[@@dLF4@@]}
{dLF4::d}

   If you run this with an open memo with active cursor you should see  
all the linefeed spaces disappear in one fell swoop, collapsing it  
into compact text.  The insertion of the single space is to avoid too  
much collapse resulting in some loss of separation between some words.

   ~John



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