Re: removing spaces from start of visual block

On Nov 5, 2:21 pm, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

:left doesn't work in visual block

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