Re: squeezing blanks out of command lines

[Chet Ramey]

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.  But I bet bash is helpless
> here.

This completely artificial problem can be solved with a little effort 
and judicious use of M-\ (delete-horizontal-space).

Readline isn't a full-blown implementation of emacs, and never will be.

Chet
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