Re: remove extra whitespace on a line

[roodwriter]

Greg Bognar <bognar@christal.elte.hu> writes:

> Suppose     I    have   a   line  like   this.
> 
> How can I remove the extra spaces from the line?  So that I end up with
> this:
> 
> Suppose I have a line like this.
> 
> Exactly like fill-paragraph, but I do not want to "fill" the paragraph,
> only the current line.  Is there an Emacs function to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg

I'm not exactly clear on what you want done, but possibly 
M-x canonically-space-region might work.

--Rod
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