Re: remove extra whitespace on a line

[Perry Smith]

On Dec 2, 2006, at 1:02 AM, Eric Hanchrow wrote:

    Suppose     I    have   a   line  like   this.

    How can I remove the extra spaces from the line?  So that I end up with

    this:

    Suppose I have a line like this.

    Exactly like fill-paragraph, but I do not want to "fill" the paragraph,

    only the current line.  Is there an Emacs function to do this?

Not that I know of, but it'd be very easy to create one with a macro,

or Emacs Lisp.

Just narrow to the line, then fill paragraph.

There is a fill-region-as-paragraph command.  check it out.  The key sequence

would be to go to the beginning of the line, mark, go to the end of the line, then

fill-region-as-paragraph.

Also, its quicker for you to type ^h a fill (apropos fill) and scan the results.

Perry Smith ( pedz@easesoftware.com )

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