From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to delete all text from beginning of buffer to mark Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 08:53:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <481f9e2a-475f-4fb6-bb6b-abba56a27c2f@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494312875 14528 195.159.176.226 (9 May 2017 06:54:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 06:54:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 09 08:54:30 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7z2S-0003bZ-Sa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 May 2017 08:54:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35292 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7z2W-0007Dj-PR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 May 2017 02:54:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54030) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7z29-0007De-6P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2017 02:54:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7z26-0003Dp-3O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2017 02:54:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43486 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7z25-0003Ck-Su for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2017 02:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7z1t-00031M-Qv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2017 08:53:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:CLfirdfMP17AvhwrSMEA7219KZE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112972 Archived-At: Kaushal Modi wrote: > 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. You are right! Nice catch. Myself I never use narrowing but that's no excuse writing code that isn't sound ("movable" in this case). -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573