From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: delete the first few chars of each line
Date: 21 Sep 2003 21:51:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5wuc1yl64.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (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))
This is a trick question. The code above does something completely
different.
I'd probably do something like
(progn
(beginning-of-line)
(delete-region (point) (+ 10 (point))))
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-21 19:51 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 [this message]
2003-09-21 20:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-21 20:49 ` David Kastrup
2003-09-22 20:08 ` Pascal Bourguignon
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