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		tmaly 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What is your favorite lesser known VIM sho... sometimes when I copy data into a file, I get some blank lines depending on how the data was formatted. This can often happen when copying from websites. I find this shortcut useful to delete all blank lines in a file :g/^$/d

btschaegg 9 months ago [–]

To add to this, I would say :g in combination with :norm would be my choice.

Edit: Oh, also, since vim ships with xxd: xxd -r -p is a very useful thing to know.

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