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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: delete buffer content from the point
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:49:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s2afn76.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKoxK+4A-w0o7gVmBJ8NjqhKnNbhvm4zDZ_h=jW5-KgzEviORQ@mail.gmail.com> (Luca Ferrari's message of "Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:32:09 +0200")

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a short and sweet way to kill the content of the current
> buffer from the point to the end of the buffer itself?
> I do often duplicate files and adjusts the header part, then I do
> 'C-k' until the part of the file I want to delete has disappeared, but
> this has the drawback of being slow and inserting a wall of text into
> the kill ring.

Set the mark with C-SPC, move to the end of buffer with C-<end>, M-x
delete-region.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-13 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-13 11:32 delete buffer content from the point Luca Ferrari
2021-07-13 11:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-07-13 11:44 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-07-13 11:51   ` Robert Pluim
2021-07-13 11:49 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-13 11:49 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2021-07-13 11:50 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-13 12:08 ` Joost Kremers
2021-07-14  8:45   ` Luca Ferrari
2021-07-13 13:40 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-30 10:49   ` Luca Ferrari
2021-07-30 15:59     ` Drew Adams

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