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Re: remove extra whitespace on a line
From: |
Dieter Wilhelm |
Subject: |
Re: remove extra whitespace on a line |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:43:04 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> 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?
>
> Not that I know of, but it'd be very easy to create one with a macro,
> or Emacs Lisp.
>
> Just narrow to the line, then fill paragraph.
Good idea! Another idea is:
Mark line:
C-a C-SPC C-n
Then replace whitespace:
C-M-% " +" RET " " !
Your idea in comparison (after marking):
C-x n n M-q C-x n w
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Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany