Re: removing spaces from start of visual block

On Nov 4, 5:11 pm, "Benjamin R. Haskell" <v...@benizi.com> wrote:
> 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

Thank you Ben

I noted that the spaces I deleted will disorder the other blocks of
text at the right side of current block.

Maybe left align will be better ....or can your code be used in
Replace mode?

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