From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: delete buffer content from the point Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:50:34 +0200 Message-ID: <8735sijuut.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34391"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:bSu+QYWjsvYQtdaNbMbkPfUdiQc= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 13 13:55:32 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m3H0e-0008mP-9M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:55:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58990 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m3H0c-0005RZ-M5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 07:55:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59668) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m3H0D-0005RR-SH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 07:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:38136) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m3H0C-0001ZX-EU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 07:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m3H0A-0008Bm-8V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:55:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131679 Archived-At: Luca Ferrari wrote: > Is there a short and sweet way to kill the content of the current > buffer from the point to the end of the buffer itself? > I do often duplicate files and adjusts the header part, then I do > 'C-k' until the part of the file I want to delete has disappeared, but > this has the drawback of being slow and inserting a wall of text into > the kill ring. Or `delete-region': (delete-region (point) (point-max)) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal