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Subject: Re: How to delete all text from beginning of buffer to mark
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Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> writes:

> I am in a large file of text and my cursor is at the start of the text
> I want.  I want to delete all the text before the cursor.  I know I
> can set the mark using C-sp but how do I then select to the beginning
> of the file?

M-<

maybe?

Cheers,

Loris

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