diff --git a/functions/_replace_command_token.fish b/functions/_replace_command_token.fish
index b0064cb..0cf6690 100644
--- a/functions/_replace_command_token.fish
+++ b/functions/_replace_command_token.fish
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 function _replace_command_token --description 'Remove first token from commandline and place cursor at start'
     set -l cmd (commandline)
-    set -l rest (string replace -r '^\S+\s*' '' -- $cmd)
+    set -l rest (string replace -r '^\S+' '' -- $cmd)
     commandline -- $rest
     commandline -C 0
 end