Function: message-elide-region

message-elide-region is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in message.el.gz.

Signature

(message-elide-region B E)

Documentation

Elide the text in the region.

An ellipsis (from message-elide-ellipsis) will be inserted where the text was killed.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/message.el.gz
(defun message-elide-region (b e)
  "Elide the text in the region.
An ellipsis (from `message-elide-ellipsis') will be inserted where the
text was killed."
  (interactive "r" message-mode)
  (let ((lines (count-lines b e))
        (chars (- e b)))
    (kill-region b e)
    (insert (format-spec message-elide-ellipsis
                         `((?l . ,lines)
                           (?c . ,chars))))))