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//
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Best,
Ben
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