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14.1.3 Other Kill CommandsKill the region (kill-region
).
Copy the region into the kill ring (kill-ring-save
).
Kill the next word (kill-word
). See Words.
Kill one word backwards (backward-kill-word
).
Kill back to beginning of sentence (backward-kill-sentence
). See Sentences.
Kill to the end of the sentence (kill-sentence
).
Kill the following balanced expression (kill-sexp
). See Expressions with Balanced Parentheses.
Kill through the next occurrence of char (zap-to-char
).
Kill up to, but not including, the next occurrence of char.
One of the commonly-used kill commands is C-w (kill-region
), which kills the text in the region (see The Mark and the Region). Similarly, M-w (kill-ring-save
) copies the text in the region into the kill ring without removing it from the buffer. If the mark is inactive when you type C-w or M-w, the command acts on the text between point and where you last set the mark (see Operating on the Region).
Emacs also provides commands to kill specific syntactic units: words, with M-DEL and M-d (see Words); balanced expressions, with C-M-k (see Expressions with Balanced Parentheses); and sentences, with C-x DEL and M-k (see Sentences).
The command M-z (zap-to-char
) combines killing with searching: it reads a character and kills from point up to (and including) the next occurrence of that character in the buffer. A numeric argument acts as a repeat count; a negative argument means to search backward and kill text before point. A history of previously used characters is maintained and can be accessed via the M-p/M-n keystrokes. This is mainly useful if the character to be used has to be entered via a complicated input method. A similar command zap-up-to-char
kills from point up to, but not including the next occurrence of a character, with numeric argument acting as a repeat count.
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