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From: Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org>
To: Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to delete all text from beginning of buffer to mark
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 13:39:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lwu9s4n.fsf@therning.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481f9e2a-475f-4fb6-bb6b-abba56a27c2f@googlegroups.com>

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Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:

> I am in a large file of text and my cursor is at the start of the text
> I want. I want to delete all the text before the cursor. I know I can
> set the mark using C-sp but how do I then select to the beginning of
> the file?
>
> What is the best way to basically delete all text before the cursor in
> the buffer?

In Evil mode this one way to do it: `d 0 k d gg` ;)

If you the text you want is at the start of a line you can skip the
initial `d 0`.

/M

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-09 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-08 14:14 How to delete all text from beginning of buffer to mark Angus Comber
2017-05-08 14:20 ` Loris Bennett
2017-05-08 15:21   ` tomas
2017-05-08 15:43     ` hector
2017-05-08 15:35 ` Teemu Likonen
2017-05-08 15:50 ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-09  2:04   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-09  2:20     ` iterating the kill ring (was: Re: How to delete all text from beginning of buffer to mark) Emanuel Berg
2017-05-09  3:07     ` How to delete all text from beginning of buffer to mark Kaushal Modi
2017-05-09  6:53       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-09 11:39 ` Magnus Therning [this message]

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