RE: Getting a text file rid of all superfluous blank lines
Les Mikesell wrote:
If I use a GUI tool with some kind of visual search
I never know how to start or how to describe it. Aside from
every tool being different and rarely scriptable for repeated
actions, every action depends on context to an extent that
makes re-using what you've learned impossible. Obviously
I don't expect to have used the same GUI concept usefully
for 20 years, but I can't think of much that has worked the
same for even 5.
ah, well that's just never going to happen. everybody fancies
themselves a GUI designer (or GUI re-designer), and very few
are working in environments where meddling with a functional
GUI is considered a sin (these environments do exist, some parts
of my day job have such constraints; they are taken very
seriously and with good reason.)
richard