is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?

[Kalle Møller]

I know its not in commandline, but in vim (maybe even vi) you could just
/\n\n\n

This would find new lines... And you could jump between them with n..

and :set ruler so you can find linenumber

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

>
>        in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several
> newlines to indicate a
>        jump in time, or topic, or mood, or <<whatever>>.  i have lost these
> vertical spacing
>        in all but my original draft.  can i use grep somehow to find these
> extra newlines?
>
>        if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?!
>
>        tia,
>
>        gary
>
>
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