Re: remove all the whitespace characters from the cursor to the next symbol

[alex_sv <avshabanov@gmail.com>]

On Mar 16, 5:56 am, Scott Frazer <frazer.sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 15, 10:43 am, alex_sv <avshaba...@gmail.com> 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!
>
> (defun my-delete-whitespace-forward ()
>   (interactive)
>   (delete-region (point) (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t\n")
> (point))))

Thank you, this works fine!
I didn't wrote the function because I thought this would be a
reinvention of some known feature I am not aware of.