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how to delete every char except newline?
To remove all content of a line, you can use the :substitute command (see :help substitute) like this:
:s/.*//
It will substitute any character (.), repeated 0 or more times (*) with nothing. It will ...
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how to delete every char except newline?
I am not sure why you want to do it, but here we go:
:%norm! D
This keeps the newlines, but makes every line empty.
Or if you want to delete the whole buffer completely, including the line breaks:
:%...
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