Remove all arbitary spaces before a line in Vim

Question

I\'v written a plugin where it comes to parsing a XML tag. The content inside the tag is indented and when i copy the parsed string into the file it\'s gettting like:

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Answer 1

How about this:

:%s/^ *//

Or are you looking for a vim-script solution?

Answer 2

Personally I would visually select the lines with V, then use 99< to push the text as far left as it could go.

Answer 3

A simple search/replace s/^\s*// should do the trick, but it's probably not the minimal version.