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

[despen@verizon.net]

alex_sv <avshabanov@gmail.com> writes:

> 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

Seems to me regular expressions would be too much typing,
I'd go for:

M-z t t

But this seemed to work:

M-% [ space ^q ^j ] * ret ret y