Re: removing spaces from start of visual block

On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, rameo wrote:

> I find myself often to align blocks of text and thought to create a
> regex to remove all leading spaces in a block.
>
> p.e.
>
> text a
> text b
> text c
> text d
>
> I would like to select a visual block around these 4 pieces of text
> and remove all leading spaces, how can I do this?
> - I can't use "^" because it aligns the block at the beginning of the
> line.
>

:'<,'>s/\%V\s*//
| | | \- \s* - zero or more spaces
| | \- \%V - matches inside the visual area
| \- s/// - substitution
\- '<,'> = visual range

(Can't use \s\+ because it fails if the line contains, but doesn't
start with, spaces).

--
Best,
Ben

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