Revisions to How to delete all white spaces until first character?

Adding `dw` in addition of `diw`.

In addition to statox's methods, you can:

Position the cursor anywhere in the leading whitespace and type diw
Position the cursor at the first non-space character of the line and type d0
Visually select all the lines you want to move left, e.g., by typing V on the first line and moving the cursor to the last line, then executing :left

Update

What I actually usually do in such cases is:

Visually select all the lines as above, type < to move them left by one shiftwidth, then type . until they're shifted all the way to the left margin.

In addition to statox's methods, you can:

Position the cursor anywhere in the leading whitespace and type diw
Position the cursor at the first non-space character of the line and type d0
Visually select all the lines you want to move left, e.g., by typing V on the first line and moving the cursor to the last line, then executing :left

Update

What I actually usually do in such cases is:

Visually select all the lines as above, type < to move them left by one shiftwidth, then type . until they're shifted all the way to the left margin.

In addition to statox's methods, you can:

Position the cursor anywhere in the leading whitespace and type diw
Position the cursor at the first non-space character of the line and type d0
Visually select all the lines you want to move left, e.g., by typing V on the first line and moving the cursor to the last line, then executing :left

Update

What I actually usually do in such cases is:

Visually select all the lines as above, type < to move them left by one shiftwidth, then type . until they're shifted all the way to the left margin.

added 221 characters in body

edited Jun 20, 2017 at 14:04

In addition to statox's methods, you can:

Position the cursor anywhere in the leading whitespace and type diw
Position the cursor at the first non-space character of the line and type d0
Visually select all the lines you want to move left, e.g., by typing V on the first line and moving the cursor to the last line, then executing :left

Update

What I actually usually do in such cases is:

Visually select all the lines as above, type < to move them left by one shiftwidth, then type . until they're shifted all the way to the left margin.

In addition to statox's methods, you can:

Position the cursor anywhere in the leading whitespace and type diw
Position the cursor at the first non-space character of the line and type d0
Visually select all the lines you want to move left, e.g., by typing V on the first line and moving the cursor to the last line, then executing :left

In addition to statox's methods, you can:

Position the cursor anywhere in the leading whitespace and type diw
Position the cursor at the first non-space character of the line and type d0
Visually select all the lines you want to move left, e.g., by typing V on the first line and moving the cursor to the last line, then executing :left

Update

What I actually usually do in such cases is:

Visually select all the lines as above, type < to move them left by one shiftwidth, then type . until they're shifted all the way to the left margin.

answered Jun 20, 2017 at 8:02

In addition to statox's methods, you can:

Position the cursor anywhere in the leading whitespace and type diw
Position the cursor at the first non-space character of the line and type d0
Visually select all the lines you want to move left, e.g., by typing V on the first line and moving the cursor to the last line, then executing :left

Return to Answer