vim: delete the first 2 spaces for multiple lines

Question

What\'s the easiest way to delete the first 2 spaces for each line using VIM? Basically it\'s repeating \"2x\" for each line.

Clarification: here the assumption is t

Answer 1

You could also use a search and replace (in the ex editor, accessed via the : character):

Remove first two characters no matter what:

%s/^.\{2}//

Remove first two white space characters (must be at the beginning and both must be whitespace... any line not matching that criteria will be skipped):

%s/^\s\{2}//