Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!jk3k+ From: jk3k+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Joe Keane) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: A regexp for blank lines Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 88 18:17:37 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 10 How about the function delete-matching-lines? Or since that works only on lines after point, you might want: (defun delete-all-matching-lines regexp (interactive "sFlush all lines matching regexp: ") (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (delete-matching-lines regexp))) --Joe