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This is all arrangement view.

I do narration for audiobooks, I record one long track and snap my fingers whenever I have to do a retake. Then I listen to the track and delete the bad takes. This leaves blank space that I could just drag and drop the track over, however I have a feel ableton has a command that will speed this process up(I can have hundreds of edits in a track) so pauseing, dragging and dropping is very time consuming.

If I do this and highlight all the clips in the end can I click some hot key that will just move them all next to eachother?

Once you've deleted all the bad takes, leaving gaps between clips, select all the clips by right clicking the track's title bar then clicking Select Track Content (or simply ctrl-a if it's the only track with any arrangement content). Move (or copy) the clips into session view, then move them back to arrangement view

(I know this is an old question; I'm replying in the case anyone else searches for a solution in future. Someone let me know if replying to old posts is discouraged. I didn't catch anything about it in the FAQ or subforum rules)

My answer to the question would be:

Delete the bad takes using the shortcut CTRL/CMD+SHIFT+DEL ('delete time') . This deletes the selected part and then automatically removes the gap.

Ah I forgot about that as I don't often use it. I think that deletes the time for all tracks doesn't it? So if there was content on other tracks that would be removed too?

Yes, it would delete on other tracks too. But since OP talked about one long take this shouldn't be a problem.