From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete all whitespace (space) in a region
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 06:34:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZUxvbzHgO1tvrNkl@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zfzn4qa2.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 09:24:53PM -0500, tpeplt wrote:
> Manuel Giraud via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> >
> > If you don't want to confirm for the replacements, you could instead do
> > this:
> >
> > (defun my-delete-all-whitespace-region (beg end)
> > (interactive "r")
> > (save-excursion
> > (goto-char beg)
> > (while (re-search-forward " " end t)
> > (replace-match ""))))
A small optimisation would be to use the regexp " +", meaning one
or more spaces.
>
> 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)))
To have this here, you'd have to "replace-regexp-in-region", of
course.
Cheers
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t
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-09 5:34 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
2023-11-09 5:34 ` tomas [this message]
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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