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From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete all whitespace (space) in a region
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:02:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzqld4li.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87v8abir3v.fsf@dataswamp.org

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>>> "EB" == Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> tpeplt wrote:
>> Emacs 28 added the function ‘replace-string-in-region’.
>> 
>> (defun my-delete-all-whitespace-region (beg end)
>> (interactive "r")
>> (save-excursion
>> (replace-string-in-region " " "" beg end)))

> (defun delete-all-whitespace (&optional beg end)
>   (interactive
>     (when (use-region-p)
>       (list (region-beginning) (region-end)) ))
>   (or beg (setq beg (point-min)))
>   (or end (setq end (point-max)))
>   (save-mark-and-excursion
>     (replace-string-in-region " " "" beg end) ))

> A pretty fancy interface to a one-liner function with
> hardcoded data :)

Right, but well I would only use this function region wide never on the
whole buffer. That is why I prefer *(interactive "r")*

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-13 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-08 17:53 delete all whitespace (space) in a region Uwe Brauer
2023-11-08 19:15 ` Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-11-09  2:24   ` tpeplt
2023-11-09  2:43     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-11-13 16:02       ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2023-11-09  5:34     ` tomas
2023-11-14  8:41       ` Andreas Röhler
2023-11-14  9:33         ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-11-09  8:44     ` Uwe Brauer
2023-11-09 15:58       ` tpeplt

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