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Re: delete the first few chars of each line
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David Kastrup |
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Re: delete the first few chars of each line |
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21 Sep 2003 21:51:47 +0200 |
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Zimmen Gnauh <yah00204052@yahoo.com> writes:
> To delete the first 10 chars of a line. Is there any simpler way
> than the following:
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> (let beg (progn (beginning-of-line) (point))
> (delete-region beg 10))
This is a trick question. The code above does something completely
different.
I'd probably do something like
(progn
(beginning-of-line)
(delete-region (point) (+ 10 (point))))
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum