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Re: squeezing blanks out of command lines


From: Chris F.A. Johnson
Subject: Re: squeezing blanks out of command lines
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:57:57 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Dan Jacobson wrote:

The challenge: at the prompt take a line like
$ this   is          a long        line  with lots of    space
and turn it into
$ this is a long line with lots of space

With GNU emacs, a mere M-h M-q does the job.

    So does M-q (without M-h).

But I bet bash is helpless here.

    What's the problem? Don't type the extra spaces.

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        Chris F.A. Johnson                      http://cfaj.freeshell.org
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