From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: despen@verizon.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: remove all the whitespace characters from the cursor to the next symbol Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:59:46 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272994208 22599 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 17:30:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:30:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 19:30:07 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Lwd-0007w4-JN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 19:30:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58677 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Lwc-0005j9-UN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 13:30:06 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:59:46 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.motzarella.org; posting-host="zonOWvH8iMOSVG4S2eKuOA"; logging-data="16764"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/rdOPML/JKo7RCayIj2rAh9uTFfioaihg=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v4Ul7jfjmnADjaggEE3K9g9tb3k= sha1:DLCL+AhTvLugTqZWrcnjiRPWroo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177476 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:72987 Archived-At: alex_sv 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