Re: Emacs hangs when deleting a large portion of text in a large file

[Joshua D. Guttman]

Michael Mueller <michael_p_mueller@agilent.com> writes:

>   When I just jump to the end and then delete the
>   region using C-W, emacs hangs. 

Oh, for this you definitely want to use M-x delete-region 
which does not put anything on the kill ring or x clipboard.  

        Joshua 

delete-region is an interactive built-in function.
(delete-region START END)

Delete the text between point and mark.
When called from a program, expects two arguments,
positions (integers or markers) specifying the stretch to be deleted.
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