vim: delete all blank space until next non-blank character

Question

Say I have the following code:

<p>
    Hello
</p>

And I want to make it

<p>Hello</p>

I would like to put the cursor in normal mode at the end of line 1, so on the ' > ' and have a command to delete all spaces until the next character. The closest I can think of is the motion

d/Hello

which deletes everything until Hello but the issue is that it deletes also the character under the cursor (the ' > ') so I end up with

<pHello
</p>

How would you do that?

Answer 1

One way when you won't need to repeat this action many times.

JxJx

Explanation:

J           # Join current line with next one but substitute end of line with a space.
x           # Remove the space.
Jx          # Repeat same process for last line.