Re: delete the first few chars of each line

[Pascal Bourguignon]

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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