Re: delete buffer content from the point

[Emanuel Berg]

Luca Ferrari wrote:

> Is there a short and sweet way to kill the content of the
> current buffer from the point to the end of the buffer
> itself? I do often duplicate files and adjusts the header
> part, then I do 'C-k' until the part of the file I want to
> delete has disappeared, but this has the drawback of being
> slow and inserting a wall of text into the kill ring.

`delete-blank-lines'?

;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
;;;
;;; this file:
;;;   http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/kill.el
;;;   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/kill.el

(setq kill-do-not-save-duplicates t)
(setq kill-whole-line             t)
(setq yank-excluded-properties    t)

(defun kill-line-remove-blanks ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((all-blanks "[[:space:]]*$"))
    (if (looking-at all-blanks)
        (progn
          (delete-blank-lines)
          (when (and (= (point-min) (point))
                     (looking-at all-blanks) )
            (kill-line) ))
      (kill-line) )))

(provide 'kill)

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