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: remove extra whitespace on a line Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:43:04 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87fyby663r.fsf@hans.local.net> References: <87slfyu6er.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165050186 1407 80.91.229.2 (2 Dec 2006 09:03:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:03:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 02 10:03:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GqQlv-0004wT-0Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 10:02:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GqQlu-0005yh-J1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:02:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GqQlN-0005yG-AE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:02:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GqQlL-0005xo-UL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:02:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GqQlL-0005xl-Kg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:02:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.186] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GqQlK-0000oU-Uj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:02:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.167.53.90] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu5) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML25U-1GqQlJ0t2U-0003DJ; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 10:02:21 +0100 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 798A57687B; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:43:04 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Eric Hanchrow In-Reply-To: <87slfyu6er.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> (Eric Hanchrow's message of "Fri\, 01 Dec 2006 23\:02\:36 -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:39197 Archived-At: Eric Hanchrow writes: > Suppose I have a line like this. > How can I remove the extra spaces from the line? So that I end up with > this: > > Suppose I have a line like this. > > Exactly like fill-paragraph, but I do not want to "fill" the paragraph, > only the current line. Is there an Emacs function to do this? > > Not that I know of, but it'd be very easy to create one with a macro, > or Emacs Lisp. > > Just narrow to the line, then fill paragraph. Good idea! Another idea is: Mark line: C-a C-SPC C-n Then replace whitespace: C-M-% " +" RET " " ! Your idea in comparison (after marking): C-x n n M-q C-x n w -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany