Angus Comber [2017-05-08 07:14:40-07] wrote:

> What is the best way to basically delete all text before the cursor in
> the buffer?

M-< C-w

The first command (beginning-of-buffer) sets the mark and moves the
point to the beginning of buffer. The second command (kill-region) kills
the text between the point and the mark.

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