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From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: remove all the whitespace characters from the cursor to the next symbol
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:14:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <062dnfRzsOL5LAPWnZ2dnUVZ_qKdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb7be740-a173-4bc1-bf4a-30edc4cd5015@e7g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>

alex_sv wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Could you please clarify - is it possible to remove all the whitespace
> characters including newline from the current cursor position to the
> next meaningful symbol using one command?
> 
> I mean if our buffer's content is as follows:
> 
> texttexttext{cursor}___
> _
> ___text
> 
> where '_' means space character, is it possible to press some known
> key sequence to transform the given above to the following form:
> 
> texttexttext{cursor}text
> 
> Thanks in advance!


Replace regular expression might work:

C-M-%
[_C-qC-j]+ Ret
Ret

where _ is space.

You also might me able to use

\s-

(whitespace syntax)
but I couldn't get it to work.

Ed



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-15 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-15 14:43 remove all the whitespace characters from the cursor to the next symbol alex_sv
2010-03-15 22:14 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2010-03-16  1:59 ` despen
2010-03-16  2:56 ` Scott Frazer
2010-03-16  9:58   ` alex_sv
2010-05-07  3:34 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-05-07 15:48   ` Sivaram Neelakantan
     [not found] <mailman.30.1273247412.2075.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-07 18:52 ` David Rogoff

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