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I'm using the awesome https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround plugin to surround words with parenthesis, for example I often use: viws<space><space> to surround a word with spaces.
What I'm missing is the opposite of this, that is, deleting surrounding spaces around a word.
The most common use for me is function arguments like foo(bar) vs foo( bar ) depending on code style.
Does anyone know a nice way to do this?
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To delete one character, position the cursor over the character to be deleted and type x . The x command also deletes the space the character occupied—when a letter is removed from the middle of a word, the remaining letters will close up, leaving no gap. You can also delete blank spaces in a line with the x command.
Method One: sed A simple command line approach to remove unwanted whitespaces is via sed . The following command deletes all spaces and tabs at the end of each line in input. java . If there are multiple files that need trailing whitespaces removed, you can use a combination of find and sed commands.
Trailing whitespace is any spaces or tabs after the last non-whitespace character on the line until the newline. In your posted question, there is one extra space after try: , and there are 12 extra spaces after pass : >>> post_text = '''\ ...
s/[[:space:]]//g; – as before, the s command removes all whitespace from the text in the current pattern space.
Note: This solution requires the surround plugin referenced in the question.
For your specific situation you could do the following:
cs()
This changes foo( bar ) to foo(bar), however, it is not a general solution to your problem.
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I often productively procrastinate in search of vim plugins too, when I could just define a mapping for this.
nnoremap <leader>dd F<space>xf<space>x
EDIT more information
<leader> common key for user defined mappings (, is a good one)
dd combination to use (any other mnemonic one will suffice)
F<space>x search backwards for a space, then remove it
f<space>x search forwards for a space, then remove it
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Maybe just BXElx in normal mode.
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