[CLUE-Tech] vim question: doing a large document using join

[Kevin Cullis]

Todd,

Yes, it works, but I was wondering if there are other ways or scripts
that would do a whole file at once.  Does it sound like I'll have to use
sed to do the whole file?

Kevin

"Todd A. Gibson" wrote:
> 
> > how do i do this without doing a join on each paragraph?  i'd like to
> > have one command to join the whole document at once.  while i could use
> > sed or awk, sometimes i don't need sed and vim is good enough. is this
> > possible?
> 
> Go to the first line of the paragraph and type the following:
> 0dwV}gq
> 
> Does that do what you want?  It only does one paragraph and not the
> entire file.