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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Mathew L. Moore wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there a quick command sequence that allows me to delete all of the
> whitespace between the point and the next non-whitespace character---sort
> of like the way M-d deletes from the point to the end of a word?
> 
> Thanks for your help.

Not quite what you want, but you could check out `delete-horizontal-space'
and 'just-one-space', bound by default to `M-\' and 'M-<SPC>' respectively.

If you can't find what you want, you could possibly grab the code for one
of these from simple.el and modify it...

-- 
Benjamin Lewis

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