From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to delete all text from beginning of buffer to mark
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 03:07:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY3h0Da8L2aioswKtBQvQ4+nVTYvp17d6wxi=4Mzj5XoGg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw.861sryrdjf.fsf@zoho.com>
>
> However it can be interesting to discuss
> a function:
>
> (defun delete-to-point ()
> (interactive)
> (let ((start 1)
> (end (point)))
> (delete-region start end) ))
>
For safety, I would set the start to (point-min) instead of 1. Then if the
user has narrowed the buffer, the deletion will begin only from the
beginning of the narrowed region, instead of the actual beginning of the
buffer.
> --
Kaushal Modi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-09 3:07 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 ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2017-05-09 6:53 ` How to delete all text from beginning of buffer to mark Emanuel Berg
2017-05-09 11:39 ` Magnus Therning
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