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From: "Ronald" <followait@163.com>
Subject: Re: How to delete until the first displayable character in a line?
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:27:34 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <elnacp$42q$1@news.yaako.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1165944112.459711.154410@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com

> A prefix argument determines how many, so ..
> C-u 2 C-k kills the next two, C-u -1 C-k text from point back to the
> start of the line.
> C-u C-k kills the next 4 lines.

It's hard to count how many spaces there are, even harder with tabs.
What's easy is that do that in one line is enough for me.

>> On the hand, to delete characters until the first undisplayable 
>> character.
> Don't know how to do that.  Possibly you could use zap-to-char.
> Why on earth do you want to do that anyway?

Because if the previous deleting can be done, I think it is a good 
companion. :-) 

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-12 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-12 15:35 How to delete until the first displayable character in a line? Ronald
2006-12-12 15:52 ` More general Ronald
2006-12-12 18:55   ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1798.1165949787.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-12 22:20     ` Ronald
2006-12-12 17:21 ` How to delete until the first displayable character in a line? Robert Thorpe
2006-12-12 22:27   ` Ronald [this message]
2006-12-13 11:19     ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-13  0:12 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-12-23 12:47   ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-12-13 12:21 ` Mathias Dahl

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