On 2018-09-19 17:36, Claus Atzenbeck wrote: > P.S. I know there is ed command: 1,5s/^\s\+// but this is difficult > to type quickly and requires a lot of thinking. Using some normal > command and repeating j. would be much simpler to think and edit. > > > I probably would mark the paragraph in visual mode, then use > > :s/^ *// > > which I find easy to remember and quick to type. (No need for > "\s\+" which is just more to type compared to " *".)
If you're looking for additional laziness, if you don't have any flags (you don't in this case), you can drop the last "/", and if you're *also* replacing with nothing (i.e., deleting the match), you can drop the separator "/" too, making it just :s/^ * If the file has a mix of tabs & spaces, you can :s/^\s* -tim -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
