Delete whitespace for a set of lines in Vim editor I have some text like the following in a file: sample text some random text even more random text text with no indent worst indention I need to delete the empty space before each of the lines. For one line what I do is `0dw` I can repeat the same command using . but by manually navigating to the next lines. But is there a way to apply '0dw' to those block of lines? I suppose there is a way using macros, but I haven't used them before. But I am willing to learn them if ther is no other choice.

:%s/^\s\+
" Same thing (:le = :left = left-align given range):
:%le


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If you want to do this for a particular range of lines:


:19,25s/^\s\+//


BTW, best way to start learning vim is to execute `vimtutor` command, it will teach you how to use Vim in Vim editor.