From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to kill line beginning with specific string
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:47:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdh6sxxx.fsf@kobe.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.11014.1258611938.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:51:29 -0800 (PST), brooklynwhite <white805@umn.edu> wrote:
> I need to figure out how to kill a series of lines in a text file that all
> begin with the same string. The format of the lines is:
>
> 2000 001 00 AIR TEMP 354
>
> The second and third expressions in the line change with subsequent
> lines, e.g.:
>
> 2000 002 01 AIR TEMP 354
>
> Is there a simple way for me to search for and kill all of these lines
> without having to repeatedly enter the search mode and type ctrl-k
> when the line is found? I realize this may be a silly question so
> thanks for your patience and help.
You can use `M-x flush-lines RET'. Note that the `flush-lines' argument
is a regular expression, but it should work fine for simple string
matching too.
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2009-11-19 8:47 ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2009-11-18 18:51 How to kill line beginning with specific string brooklynwhite
2009-11-19 6:43 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2009-11-19 17:12 ` brooklynwhite
2009-11-19 10:14 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.11032.1258625728.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-19 10:45 ` Miles Bader
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