Re: How to kill line beginning with specific string

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
>> 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?
>
> You can check with C-M-s ^2000 .*C-qC-j – it will high-light the
> matching lines. Once you're content you can use replace-regexp to
> replace all that matches the regular expression with nothing.

Perhaps more easily, use the `flush-lines' command, and give it a regexp
of "^" + your string:

E.g., to kill lines beginning with "my prefix":

   M-x flush-lines RET ^my prefix RET

[Note that flush-lines operates on all lines _following point_, so you
might want to move to the beginning of the buffer first.]

-Miles

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