Re: How to get rid of first line indent?

[Birnle <birnle@gmx.de>]

Yes, Eric, thank you again. This is what I knew, I can do it with regexp. I just thought there would be a simple command that could undo the "cleanup".

But I’ve read that it is possible to directly export to Markdown – that is the format I usually work with. By exporting an Org mode file these unnecessary spaces should be erased. I just have to figure out how to export to Markdown from Org mode … Do you know a good online How-to?



> Am 12.6.2017 um 18:01 h schrieb Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>:
> 
> On Monday, 12 Jun 2017 at 15:49, Birnle wrote:
>> Is there no command to "unclean" the file again?
> 
> Difficulty is defining what "unclean" means.  For instance, if it is
> simply removing spaces at the start of a line, you could use
> 
> ,----[ C-h f replace-regexp RET ]
> | replace-regexp is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> | ‘replace.el’.
> | 
> | (replace-regexp REGEXP TO-STRING &optional DELIMITED START END
> | BACKWARD)
> | 
> | This function is for interactive use only;
> | [...]
> `----
> 
> and replace "^ +" with "" (no quotes typed).  But this would apply to
> all lines.  If you can come up with a regexp for "unclean" lines then
> this could work.
> 
> HTH,
> eric
> 
> -- 
> : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 26.0.50, Org release_9.0.7-531-g530113