delete_text

static VALUE
readline_s_delete_text(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
{
    rb_check_arity(argc, 0, 2);
    if (rl_line_buffer) {
        char *p, *ptr = rl_line_buffer;
        long beg = 0, len = strlen(rl_line_buffer);
        struct RString fakestr;
        VALUE str = (VALUE)&fakestr;

        fakestr.basic.flags = T_STRING | RSTRING_NOEMBED;
        fakestr.as.heap.ptr = ptr;
        fakestr.as.heap.len = len;
        rb_enc_associate(str, rb_locale_encoding());
        OBJ_FREEZE(str);
        if (argc == 2) {
            beg = NUM2LONG(argv[0]);
            len = NUM2LONG(argv[1]);
          num_pos:
            p = rb_str_subpos(str, beg, &len);
            if (!p) rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "invalid index");
            beg = p - ptr;
        }
        else if (argc == 1) {
            len = rb_str_strlen(str);
            if (!rb_range_beg_len(argv[0], &beg, &len, len, 1)) {
                beg = NUM2LONG(argv[0]);
                goto num_pos;
            }
        }
        rl_delete_text(rb_long2int(beg), rb_long2int(beg + len));
    }
    return self;
}