How to delete the newline characters at the end of every line in Vim?
ggVGJ
Broken down:
gg
: move to line 1;V
: enter visual mode;G
: move to last line;J
: join selection to single line.
The most idiomatic way of joining all lines in a buffer is to use
the :join
command:
:%j!
(Remove the !
sign if you want Vim to insert space between joined
lines. From the wording of the question I assume that you do not want
to add spaces.)
The same could be done interactively, if you prefer:
ggVGgJ
(Again, use J
instead of gJ
if you want to separate joined lines
with spaces.)
Another option is the :substitute
command:
:%s/\n//
Why use Vim? You could easily use the following shell command:
tr -d '\n' < file