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Re: delete the first few chars of each line
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: delete the first few chars of each line |
Date: |
22 Sep 2003 22:08:17 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) 21.3.50.pjb1.1 |
Zimmen Gnauh <yah00204052@yahoo.com> writes:
> To delete the first 10 chars of a line. Is there any simpler way
> than the following:
>
> (let beg (progn (beginning-of-line) (point))
> (delete-region beg 10))
C-h f let RET
(while (re-search-forward "^.........." nil t)
(delete-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))
or if you don't need it in a script:
M-x replace-regexp RET ^.......... RET RET
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