misc. pine (pico ?) usage question ... cutting rest of document ...

[George Sanders]

I often find myself needing to cut (with ^k) a lot of lines in an email - maybe hundreds or even thousands if careless respondents have top posted on top of each other for days or weeks.

And usually, what I need to do is "cut the rest of the document" ... but I don't see a way to do this.

Is there any way to cut, from my current line, the rest of the document - removing all lines below my current line ?

Thanks!

[Ken Mankoff]

Post by George Sanders
Is there any way to cut, from my current line, the rest of the
document - removing all lines below my current line ?

CTRL+^WVK

= "Start Selection", "Find", "Last Line", "Cut"

-k.

[Jonesy]

Post by Ken Mankoff

Post by George Sanders
Is there any way to cut, from my current line, the rest of the
document - removing all lines below my current line ?

CTRL+^WVK
= "Start Selection", "Find", "Last Line", "Cut"

+1

[Barry Landy]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, George Sanders wrote:

:>I often find myself needing to cut (with ^k) a lot of lines in an email - maybe hundreds or even thousands if careless respondents have top posted on top of each other for days or weeks.
:>
:>And usually, what I need to do is "cut the rest of the document" ... but I don't see a way to do this.
:>
:>Is there any way to cut, from my current line, the rest of the document - removing all lines below my current line ?

Control ^ to set a mark at the place the cut should start
Control V to move to the foot of the document
marked text should now be highlighted
Control K will cut all the marked text

(should it be useful Control Y goes to top of document)

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[Eduardo Chappa]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, George Sanders wrote:

:) Is there any way to cut, from my current line, the rest of the document
:) - removing all lines below my current line ?

Dear George,

I have a patch that does that. It will cut until the end of the document
(or in an e-mail message until where the signature begins, if you use the
separator "-- " for signatures). Once the patch is applied, you should
press "Ctrl W Ctrl X".

The patch for Pine is available at

http://patches.freeiz.com/pine/info/DelText.html

If you consider upgrading to Alpine, get the patch from

http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/info/DelText.html

[Matt Ackeret]

Post by George Sanders
I often find myself needing to cut (with ^k) a lot of lines in an email - maybe hundreds or even thousands if careless respondents have top posted on top of each other for days or weeks.
And usually, what I need to do is "cut the rest of the document" ... but I don't see a way to do this.

others have answered your real question, but I'll plug vim. If you use an
external editor, and use vim, then you can just type dG to delete from the
current line to the end of the document.