vim：如何删除空格直到第一个字符？

Question

I have a line like this:

      foobar

as you can see there are many spaces between the first column and 'foobar'. If I have the cursor in the first column, is there any key binding to remove the spaces till 'foobar'?

Answer 1

d w

Will delete all the whitespace if you're on the first column.

Answer 2

dtf

Delete Till F

There is no other easy command. You could use a regex, but that'd be more painful to write.

My bad, @Mat's answer is even better ( dw ).

Answer 3

The simple answer is

dw

...which performs [d]elete [w]ord. If you want to remove all whitespace in the whole document before all occurences of "foobar":

:%s/^\s*foobar/foobar/

Answer 4

use :%s/\\s\\+$//e

\\s stands for space and tab + find one or more occurence

You can find more details in Remove unwanted spaces

Answer 5

Way 1: Go to the line, and :s/^ *//g

Way 2: Go to the first blank space of that line and press dw