From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete all whitespace (space) in a region
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:43:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8abir3v.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zfzn4qa2.fsf@gmail.com
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 :)
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-09 2:43 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 [this message]
2023-11-13 16:02 ` Uwe Brauer
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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