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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prev 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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