Re: removing spaces from start of visual block

On Nov 4, 5:33 pm, "Benjamin R. Haskell" <v...@benizi.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Benjamin R. Haskell 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).
>
> Also missed another corner case (spaces all through the visual block and
> beyond):
>
>     VV
>     text a
>     ..    text b <
>     .text c      <
>        text d
>     ^^
>
> Before, the '..     text b' would become 'text b', instead of '    text
> b'.  Fixed by adding a trailing \%V, per suggestion at :help /\%V
>
> :'<,'>s/\%V\s*\%V//
>
> --
> Best,
> Ben

It still moves the blocks at the right side of current block.
(please see my previous message)

Kind regards,
Rameo

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