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From: Birnle <birnle@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: How to get rid of first line indent?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:07:18 +0200
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To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
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Thank you, Marcin,

In fact, rectangle deletion doesn’t work since the text has over 700 
header lines that are not indented. But replace-regexp works.

Best,
Birnle

On 13 Jun 2017, at 5:21, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

> On 2017-06-12, at 23:42, Birnle <birnle@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Thank you, John, for your answer. And no, it’s much too early for 
>> me
>> to be sure … But C-c n does actually indent each (first) line with
>> whitespace according to the number of asterisks in the heading.
>>
>> The easiest and fastest solution is in fact deleting the leading
>> whitespace in every line by replace-regexp (replace ^ + by nothing).
>
> The easiest and fastest solution is probably to use delete-rectangle 
> (or
> rectangle-mark-mode and then DEL).
>
> Hth,
>
> -- 
> Marcin Borkowski