From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to delete until the first displayable character in a line? Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:12:00 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <878xhcbqnj.fsf@hans.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165968747 22379 80.91.229.10 (13 Dec 2006 00:12:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 13 01:12:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GuHjQ-0002fH-Rj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:12:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GuHjQ-0001sD-9I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:12:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuHj9-0001la-4k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:12:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuHj6-0001iw-Ju for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:12:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GuHj6-0001ik-G3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:12:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.171] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GuHj6-0008BU-5M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:12:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.167.63.142] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu6) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML29c-1GuHj41IbF-00031V; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:11:58 +0100 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 86A0776691; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:12:00 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Ronald In-Reply-To: (Ronald's message of "Tue\, 12 Dec 2006 23\:35\:19 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39486 Archived-At: Ronald writes: > How to delete towards the right or the left until the first displayed > character or the start/end of a line. 1. M-\: deletes white space to the right *and* the left. 2. M-- M-\: deletes white space only to the left. (There's a bug right now when calling delete-horizontal-space with M-\ but I'll report it.) 3. C-M-s SPC RET C-w: kills white space to the right. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany