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From: roodwriter@ureach.com
Subject: Re: remove extra whitespace on a line
Date: 02 Dec 2006 03:20:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zma61zfh.fsf@linux.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pan.2006.12.02.06.27.00.687050@christal.elte.hu

Greg Bognar <bognar@christal.elte.hu> 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg

I'm not exactly clear on what you want done, but possibly 
M-x canonically-space-region might work.

--Rod
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-02  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-02  6:27 remove extra whitespace on a line Greg Bognar
2006-12-02  6:46 ` Chris Menzel
2006-12-02  7:01 ` Herbert Euler
2006-12-02  7:02 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-12-02  8:43   ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-12-02 13:50   ` Perry Smith
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1429.1165067469.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-02 15:26     ` B. T. Raven
2006-12-02  8:20 ` roodwriter [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.1421.1165042886.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-02 12:15 ` Markus Triska
2006-12-02 12:55   ` David Hansen
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1428.1165064915.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-02 17:40     ` Greg Bognar
2006-12-02 17:58       ` Markus Triska
2006-12-02 19:49       ` David Hansen
2006-12-02 20:52         ` Dieter Wilhelm

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