Delete newline in Vim

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Is there a way to delete the newline at the end of a line in Vim  so that the next line is appended to the current line   For example   Evaluator lt T gt          bestPos        I d like to put this all on one line without copying lines and pasting them into the previous one   It seems like I should be able to put my cursor to the end of each line  press a key  and have the next line jump onto the same one the cursor is on   End result   Evaluator lt T gt      bestPos        Is this possible in Vim

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Certainly  Vim recognizes the  n character as a newline  so you can just search and replace  In command mode type     s  n

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While on the upper line in normal mode  hit Shift j   You can prepend a count too  so 3J on the top line would join all those lines together

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set backspace indent eol start   in your  vimrc will allow you to use backspace and delete on  n  newline  in insert mode   set whichwrap   lt   gt  h l       will allow you to delete the previous LF in normal mode with X  when in col 1

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if you don t mind using other shell tools   tr -d   n   lt  file  gt t  amp  amp  mv -f t file  sed -i bak -e  a -e  N s  n   ba  file  awk   printf   s   0    file  gt t  amp  amp  mv -f t file

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If you are on the first line  pressing  upper case  J will join that line and the next line together  removing the newline  You can also combine this with a count  so pressing 3J will combine all 3 lines together

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J deletes extra leading spacing  if any   joining lines with a single space    With some exceptions  after           two spaces may be inserted  before    s     no spaces are inserted    If you don t want that behavior  gJ simply removes the newline and doesn t do anything clever with spaces at all

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The problem is that multiples char 0A   n  that are invisible may accumulate  Supose you want to clean up from line 100 to the end   Typing ESC and    terminal commander    110  s   n     In a vim script   execute  110  s   n      Explanation  from 110 till the end search for lines that start with new line  are blank   and remove them

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All of the following assume that your cursor is on the first line   Using normal mappings   3Shift J  Using Ex commands      2j   Which is an abbreviation of       2 join   Which can also be entered by the following shortcut   3 j  An even shorter Ex command    j3

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It probably depends on your settings  but I usually do this with A lt delete gt   Where A is append at the end of the line  It probably requires nocompatible mode

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lt CURSOR gt Evaluator lt T gt          bestPos        cursor in first line  NOW  in NORMAL MODE do  shift v 2j shift j   or  V2jJ    normal V2jJ

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I would just press A  append to end of line  puts you into insert mode  on the line where you want to remove the newline and then press delete

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As other answers mentioned   upper case  J and search   replace for  n can be used generally to strip newline characters and to concatenate lines   But in order to get rid of the trailing newline character in the last line  you need to do this in Vim    set noendofline binary  w

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