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From: Pascal Bourguignon <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com>
Subject: Re: delete the first few chars of each line
Date: 22 Sep 2003 22:08:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87llsgwpqm.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2k782c4eo.fsf@yahoo.com

Zimmen Gnauh <yah00204052@yahoo.com> writes:

>   To delete the first 10 chars of a line. Is there any simpler way
> than the following:
> 
> (let beg (progn (beginning-of-line) (point))
>         (delete-region beg 10))
 
C-h f let RET

(while (re-search-forward "^.........." nil t) 
    (delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))

or if you don't need it in a script:

M-x replace-regexp RET ^.......... RET RET


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__Pascal_Bourguignon__
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Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in reality.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-22 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-21 19:43 delete the first few chars of each line Zimmen Gnauh
2003-09-21 19:51 ` David Kastrup
2003-09-21 20:21   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-21 20:49     ` David Kastrup
2003-09-22 20:08 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]

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