Re: removing spaces from start of visual block

On Nov 4, 10:52 am, rameo <rai...@gmail.com> 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.
>
> Another possibility is to left align the text in the selection but I
> have not found any command to do this.
>
> I checked also the align plugin but it didn't do what I wanted to do.
>

Am I missing something, or can you just use the :left command?

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