White space in vi editor

[NetworkeR]

Hi everyone,
This is a little question but important for me. To replace all white spaces with nothing in the vi, "I"

: 1, $ s / / / g

But it does not work? I think we should add \ somewhere, but I tweak and it does not work. Can you help me? Thank you in advance.

[chroma]

Hi
Your command is good, yet it lacks a space.

: 1, $ s / / / g

Can you explain with some more details? It would be better for our understanding if you provide some more details.

[NetworkeR]

Hi
I discovered the usefulness of the file. exrc, and I am trying to define macros cool, like it, supposed to imitate the behavior of eclipse.

map! (() I <esc>

This function is meaningful, every time you tap an open parenthesis in insert mode, type "()", then i do, i.e move the slider to read inside the parentheses.
The problem is that <esc> is not interpreted as escape character but as a sequence of characters "<esc>. Finally, I can not find the character vi interprets as the esc key. I will then make the memory thing for braces (), except that I intend to squeeze them a newline and a tab.

map! ((\ N) O <esc> <tab>

Can someone tell me the character to put in place of \ n and vi <tab> that the interpreter correctly?

[NetworkeR]

Hi
I found the answer but I posted here because it could be used by others.
Instead of <esc>, typing on the keyboard ctrl + v, then the escape key and the appropriate text will be set any one in the macro. Same for the enter key or tab, type first ctrl + v then enter key or tab.
Info for rendering is this:

map! (() ^ [I
map! ((M) ^ ^ [O
map! [[] ^ [I

[ranjankumar09]

Thank you for posting your final approach.

If you want to automate this, you can use the stream editors available in biterscripting. For example, to replace all non-printable characters with nothing in file X.txt, you can use something like the following commands.

var str content
cat "X.txt" > $content
while ( { sen -r "^,^" $content } > 0 )
    sal -r "^,^" "" $content > null
echo $content > "X.txt"

[NetworkeR]

Hey, Thanks for the help... This script is really easy while implementing in automated queries...