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1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
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2 @c Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001,
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3 @c 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
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5
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6 @node Killing, Yanking, Mark, Top
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7 @chapter Killing and Moving Text
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9 @ifnottex
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10 @raisesections
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11 @end ifnottex
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12
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13 @dfn{Killing} means erasing text and copying it into the @dfn{kill
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14 ring}, from which you can bring it back into the buffer by
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15 @dfn{yanking} it. (Some systems use the terms ``cutting'' and
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16 ``pasting'' for these operations.) This is the most common way of
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17 moving or copying text within Emacs. Killing and yanking is very safe
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18 because Emacs remembers several recent kills, not just the last one.
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19 It is versatile, because the many commands for killing syntactic units
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20 can also be used for moving those units. But there are other ways of
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21 copying text for special purposes.
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23 @iftex
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24 @section Deletion and Killing
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25 @end iftex
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26
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27 @cindex killing text
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28 @cindex cutting text
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29 @cindex deletion
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30 Most commands which erase text from the buffer save it in the kill
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31 ring. These commands are known as @dfn{kill} commands. The commands
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32 that erase text but do not save it in the kill ring are known as
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33 @dfn{delete} commands. The @kbd{C-x u} (@code{undo}) command
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34 (@pxref{Undo}) can undo both kill and delete commands; the importance
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35 of the kill ring is that you can also yank the text in a different
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36 place or places. Emacs has only one kill ring for all buffers, so you
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37 can kill text in one buffer and yank it in another buffer.
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38
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39 The delete commands include @kbd{C-d} (@code{delete-char}) and
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40 @key{DEL} (@code{delete-backward-char}), which delete only one
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41 character at a time, and those commands that delete only spaces or
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42 newlines. Commands that can erase significant amounts of nontrivial
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43 data generally do a kill operation instead. The commands' names and
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44 individual descriptions use the words @samp{kill} and @samp{delete} to
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45 say which kind of operation they perform.
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46
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47 @vindex kill-read-only-ok
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48 @cindex read-only text, killing
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49 You cannot kill read-only text, since such text does not allow any
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50 kind of modification. But some users like to use the kill commands to
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51 copy read-only text into the kill ring, without actually changing it.
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52 Therefore, the kill commands work specially in a read-only buffer:
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53 they move over text, and copy it to the kill ring, without actually
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54 deleting it from the buffer. Normally, kill commands beep and display
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55 an error message when this happens. But if you set the variable
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56 @code{kill-read-only-ok} to a non-@code{nil} value, they just print a
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57 message in the echo area to explain why the text has not been erased.
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58
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59 @menu
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60 * Deletion:: Commands for deleting small amounts of text and
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61 blank areas.
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62 * Killing by Lines:: How to kill entire lines of text at one time.
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63 * Other Kill Commands:: Commands to kill large regions of text and
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64 syntactic units such as words and sentences.
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65 * Graphical Kill:: The kill ring on graphical terminals:
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66 yanking between applications.
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67 @end menu
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69 @need 1500
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70 @node Deletion
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71 @subsection Deletion
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72 @findex delete-backward-char
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73 @findex delete-char
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74
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75 Deletion means erasing text and not saving it in the kill ring. For
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76 the most part, the Emacs commands that delete text are those that
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77 erase just one character or only whitespace.
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78
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79 @table @kbd
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80 @item C-d
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81 @itemx @key{Delete}
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82 Delete next character (@code{delete-char}). If your keyboard has a
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83 @key{Delete} function key (usually located in the edit keypad), Emacs
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84 binds it to @code{delete-char} as well.
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85 @item @key{DEL}
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86 @itemx @key{BS}
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87 Delete previous character (@code{delete-backward-char}). Some keyboards
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88 refer to this key as a ``backspace key'' and label it with a left arrow.
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89 @item M-\
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90 Delete spaces and tabs around point (@code{delete-horizontal-space}).
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91 @item M-@key{SPC}
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92 Delete spaces and tabs around point, leaving one space
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93 (@code{just-one-space}).
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94 @item C-x C-o
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95 Delete blank lines around the current line (@code{delete-blank-lines}).
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96 @item M-^
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97 Join two lines by deleting the intervening newline, along with any
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98 indentation following it (@code{delete-indentation}).
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99 @end table
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101 @kindex DEL
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102 @kindex C-d
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103 The most basic delete commands are @kbd{C-d} (@code{delete-char}) and
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104 @key{DEL} (@code{delete-backward-char}). @kbd{C-d} deletes the
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105 character after point, the one the cursor is ``on top of.'' This
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106 doesn't move point. @key{DEL} deletes the character before the cursor,
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107 and moves point back. You can delete newlines like any other characters
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108 in the buffer; deleting a newline joins two lines. Actually, @kbd{C-d}
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109 and @key{DEL} aren't always delete commands; when given arguments, they
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110 kill instead, since they can erase more than one character this way.
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112 @kindex BACKSPACE
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113 @kindex BS
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114 @kindex DELETE
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115 Every keyboard has a large key, labeled @key{DEL}, @key{BACKSPACE},
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116 @key{BS} or @key{DELETE}, which is a short distance above the
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117 @key{RET} or @key{ENTER} key and is normally used for erasing what you
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118 have typed. Regardless of the actual name on the key, in Emacs it is
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119 equivalent to @key{DEL}---or it should be.
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120
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121 Many keyboards (including standard PC keyboards) have a
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122 @key{BACKSPACE} key a short ways above @key{RET} or @key{ENTER}, and a
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123 @key{DELETE} key elsewhere. In that case, the @key{BACKSPACE} key is
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124 @key{DEL}, and the @key{DELETE} key is equivalent to @kbd{C-d}---or it
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125 should be.
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126
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127 Why do we say ``or it should be''? When Emacs starts up using a
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128 window system, it determines automatically which key or keys should be
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129 equivalent to @key{DEL}. As a result, @key{BACKSPACE} and/or @key{DELETE}
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130 keys normally do the right things. But in some unusual cases Emacs
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131 gets the wrong information from the system. If these keys don't do
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132 what they ought to do, you need to tell Emacs which key to use for
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133 @key{DEL}. @xref{DEL Does Not Delete}, for how to do this.
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135 @findex normal-erase-is-backspace-mode
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136 On most text-only terminals, Emacs cannot tell which keys the
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137 keyboard really has, so it follows a uniform plan which may or may not
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138 fit your keyboard. The uniform plan is that the @acronym{ASCII} @key{DEL}
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139 character deletes, and the @acronym{ASCII} @key{BS} (backspace) character asks
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140 for help (it is the same as @kbd{C-h}). If this is not right for your
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141 keyboard, such as if you find that the key which ought to delete backwards
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142 enters Help instead, see @ref{DEL Does Not Delete}.
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144 @kindex M-\
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145 @findex delete-horizontal-space
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146 @kindex M-SPC
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147 @findex just-one-space
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148 The other delete commands are those which delete only whitespace
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149 characters: spaces, tabs and newlines. @kbd{M-\}
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150 (@code{delete-horizontal-space}) deletes all the spaces and tab
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151 characters before and after point. @kbd{M-@key{SPC}}
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152 (@code{just-one-space}) does likewise but leaves a single space after
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153 point, regardless of the number of spaces that existed previously (even
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154 if there were none before). With a numeric argument @var{n}, it
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155 leaves @var{n} spaces after point.
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156
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157 @kbd{C-x C-o} (@code{delete-blank-lines}) deletes all blank lines
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158 after the current line. If the current line is blank, it deletes all
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164 leaving a single space. @xref{Indentation,M-^}.
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165
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166 @node Killing by Lines
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167 @subsection Killing by Lines
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169 @table @kbd
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170 @item C-k
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171 Kill rest of line or one or more lines (@code{kill-line}).
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172 @item C-S-backspace
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173 Kill an entire line at once (@code{kill-whole-line})
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174 @end table
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176 @kindex C-k
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177 @findex kill-line
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179 a line, it kills all the text on the line, leaving it blank. When used
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180 on a blank line, it kills the whole line including its newline. To kill
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182
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183 More generally, @kbd{C-k} kills from point up to the end of the line,
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184 unless it is at the end of a line. In that case it kills the newline
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185 following point, thus merging the next line into the current one.
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186 Spaces and tabs that you can't see at the end of the line are ignored
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187 when deciding which case applies, so if point appears to be at the end
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188 of the line, you can be sure @kbd{C-k} will kill the newline.
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190 When @kbd{C-k} is given a positive argument, it kills that many lines
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195 of a line kills the two previous lines.
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196
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197 @kbd{C-k} with an argument of zero kills the text before point on the
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198 current line.
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199
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200 @vindex kill-whole-line
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201 If the variable @code{kill-whole-line} is non-@code{nil}, @kbd{C-k} at
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202 the very beginning of a line kills the entire line including the
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205 @kindex C-S-backspace
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206 @findex kill-whole-line
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207 @kbd{C-S-backspace} (@code{kill-whole-line}) will kill a whole line
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208 including its newline regardless of the position of point within the
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209 line. Note that many character terminals will prevent you from typing
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210 the key sequence @kbd{C-S-backspace}.
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211
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213 @subsection Other Kill Commands
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214 @findex kill-region
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215 @kindex C-w
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216
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217 @table @kbd
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218 @item C-w
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219 Kill region (from point to the mark) (@code{kill-region}).
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220 @item M-d
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221 Kill word (@code{kill-word}). @xref{Words}.
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222 @item M-@key{DEL}
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223 Kill word backwards (@code{backward-kill-word}).
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224 @item C-x @key{DEL}
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225 Kill back to beginning of sentence (@code{backward-kill-sentence}).
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226 @xref{Sentences}.
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227 @item M-k
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228 Kill to end of sentence (@code{kill-sentence}).
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229 @item C-M-k
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230 Kill the following balanced expression (@code{kill-sexp}). @xref{Expressions}.
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231 @item M-z @var{char}
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232 Kill through the next occurrence of @var{char} (@code{zap-to-char}).
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233 @end table
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235 The most general kill command is @kbd{C-w} (@code{kill-region}),
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236 which kills everything between point and the mark. With this command,
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237 you can kill any contiguous sequence of characters, if you first set
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238 the region around them.
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239
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240 @kindex M-z
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241 @findex zap-to-char
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242 A convenient way of killing is combined with searching: @kbd{M-z}
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243 (@code{zap-to-char}) reads a character and kills from point up to (and
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244 including) the next occurrence of that character in the buffer. A
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245 numeric argument acts as a repeat count. A negative argument means to
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246 search backward and kill text before point.
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247
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248 Other syntactic units can be killed: words, with @kbd{M-@key{DEL}}
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249 and @kbd{M-d} (@pxref{Words}); balanced expressions, with @kbd{C-M-k}
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250 (@pxref{Expressions}); and sentences, with @kbd{C-x @key{DEL}} and
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251 @kbd{M-k} (@pxref{Sentences}).@refill
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253 @node Graphical Kill
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254 @subsection Killing on Graphical Terminals
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255
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256 On multi-window terminals, the most recent kill done in Emacs is
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257 also the primary selection, if it is more recent than any selection
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258 you made in another program. This means that the paste commands of
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259 other applications with separate windows copy the text that you killed
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260 in Emacs. In addition, Emacs yank commands treat other applications'
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261 selections as part of the kill ring, so you can yank them into Emacs.
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262
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263 @cindex Delete Selection mode
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264 @cindex mode, Delete Selection
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265 @findex delete-selection-mode
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266 Many window systems follow the convention that insertion while text
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267 is selected deletes the selected text. You can make Emacs behave this
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268 way by enabling Delete Selection mode, with @kbd{M-x
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269 delete-selection-mode}, or using Custom. Another effect of this mode
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270 is that @key{DEL}, @kbd{C-d} and some other keys, when a selection
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271 exists, will kill the whole selection. It also enables Transient Mark
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272 mode (@pxref{Transient Mark}).
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273
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274 @node Yanking, Accumulating Text, Killing, Top
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275 @section Yanking
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276 @cindex moving text
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277 @cindex copying text
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278 @cindex kill ring
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279 @cindex yanking
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280 @cindex pasting
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281
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282 @dfn{Yanking} means reinserting text previously killed. This is what
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283 some systems call ``pasting.'' The usual way to move or copy text is to
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284 kill it and then yank it elsewhere one or more times. This is very safe
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285 because Emacs remembers many recent kills, not just the last one.
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286
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287 @table @kbd
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288 @item C-y
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289 Yank last killed text (@code{yank}).
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290 @item M-y
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291 Replace text just yanked with an earlier batch of killed text
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292 (@code{yank-pop}).
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293 @item M-w
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294 Save region as last killed text without actually killing it
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295 (@code{kill-ring-save}). Some systems call this ``copying''.
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296 @item C-M-w
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297 Append next kill to last batch of killed text (@code{append-next-kill}).
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298 @end table
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300 On window systems, if there is a current selection in some other
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301 application, and you selected it more recently than you killed any
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302 text in Emacs, @kbd{C-y} copies the selection instead of text
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303 killed within Emacs.
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304
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305 @menu
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307 * Appending Kills:: Several kills in a row all yank together.
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308 * Earlier Kills:: Yanking something killed some time ago.
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309 @end menu
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310
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311 @node Kill Ring
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312 @subsection The Kill Ring
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313
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314 All killed text is recorded in the @dfn{kill ring}, a list of blocks of
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315 text that have been killed. There is only one kill ring, shared by all
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316 buffers, so you can kill text in one buffer and yank it in another buffer.
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317 This is the usual way to move text from one file to another.
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318 (@xref{Accumulating Text}, for some other ways.)
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319
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320 @kindex C-y
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321 @findex yank
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322 The command @kbd{C-y} (@code{yank}) reinserts the text of the most recent
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323 kill. It leaves the cursor at the end of the text. It sets the mark at
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324 the beginning of the text. @xref{Mark}.
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325
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326 @kbd{C-u C-y} leaves the cursor in front of the text, and sets the
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327 mark after it. This happens only if the argument is specified with just
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328 a @kbd{C-u}, precisely. Any other sort of argument, including @kbd{C-u}
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329 and digits, specifies an earlier kill to yank (@pxref{Earlier Kills}).
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331 @cindex yanking and text properties
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332 @vindex yank-excluded-properties
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333 The yank commands discard certain text properties from the text that
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334 is yanked, those that might lead to annoying results. For instance,
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335 they discard text properties that respond to the mouse or specify key
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336 bindings. The variable @code{yank-excluded-properties} specifies the
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337 properties to discard. Yanking of register contents and rectangles
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338 also discard these properties.
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339
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340 @kindex M-w
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341 @findex kill-ring-save
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342 To copy a block of text, you can use @kbd{M-w}
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343 (@code{kill-ring-save}), which copies the region into the kill ring
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344 without removing it from the buffer. This is approximately equivalent
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345 to @kbd{C-w} followed by @kbd{C-x u}, except that @kbd{M-w} does not
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346 alter the undo history and does not temporarily change the screen.
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347
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348 @node Appending Kills
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349 @subsection Appending Kills
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350
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351 @cindex appending kills in the ring
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352 @cindex television
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353 Normally, each kill command pushes a new entry onto the kill ring.
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354 However, two or more kill commands in a row combine their text into a
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355 single entry, so that a single @kbd{C-y} yanks all the text as a unit,
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356 just as it was before it was killed.
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357
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358 Thus, if you want to yank text as a unit, you need not kill all of it
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359 with one command; you can keep killing line after line, or word after
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360 word, until you have killed it all, and you can still get it all back at
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361 once.
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362
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363 Commands that kill forward from point add onto the end of the previous
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364 killed text. Commands that kill backward from point add text onto the
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365 beginning. This way, any sequence of mixed forward and backward kill
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366 commands puts all the killed text into one entry without rearrangement.
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367 Numeric arguments do not break the sequence of appending kills. For
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368 example, suppose the buffer contains this text:
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369
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370 @example
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371 This is a line @point{}of sample text.
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372 @end example
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373
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374 @noindent
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375 with point shown by @point{}. If you type @kbd{M-d M-@key{DEL} M-d
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376 M-@key{DEL}}, killing alternately forward and backward, you end up with
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377 @samp{a line of sample} as one entry in the kill ring, and @samp{This
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380 @kbd{M-q}.)
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381
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382 Another way to kill the same text is to move back two words with
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383 @kbd{M-b M-b}, then kill all four words forward with @kbd{C-u M-d}.
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384 This produces exactly the same results in the buffer and in the kill
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385 ring. @kbd{M-f M-f C-u M-@key{DEL}} kills the same text, all going
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386 backward; once again, the result is the same. The text in the kill ring
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387 entry always has the same order that it had in the buffer before you
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388 killed it.
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389
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390 @kindex C-M-w
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391 @findex append-next-kill
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392 If a kill command is separated from the last kill command by other
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393 commands (not just numeric arguments), it starts a new entry on the kill
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394 ring. But you can force it to append by first typing the command
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395 @kbd{C-M-w} (@code{append-next-kill}) right before it. The @kbd{C-M-w}
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396 tells the following command, if it is a kill command, to append the text
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397 it kills to the last killed text, instead of starting a new entry. With
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398 @kbd{C-M-w}, you can kill several separated pieces of text and
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399 accumulate them to be yanked back in one place.@refill
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400
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401 A kill command following @kbd{M-w} does not append to the text that
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402 @kbd{M-w} copied into the kill ring.
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403
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404 @node Earlier Kills
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405 @subsection Yanking Earlier Kills
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406
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407 @cindex yanking previous kills
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408 @kindex M-y
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409 @findex yank-pop
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410 To recover killed text that is no longer the most recent kill, use the
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411 @kbd{M-y} command (@code{yank-pop}). It takes the text previously
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412 yanked and replaces it with the text from an earlier kill. So, to
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413 recover the text of the next-to-the-last kill, first use @kbd{C-y} to
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414 yank the last kill, and then use @kbd{M-y} to replace it with the
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415 previous kill. @kbd{M-y} is allowed only after a @kbd{C-y} or another
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416 @kbd{M-y}.
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417
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418 You can understand @kbd{M-y} in terms of a ``last yank'' pointer which
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419 points at an entry in the kill ring. Each time you kill, the ``last
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420 yank'' pointer moves to the newly made entry at the front of the ring.
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421 @kbd{C-y} yanks the entry which the ``last yank'' pointer points to.
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422 @kbd{M-y} moves the ``last yank'' pointer to a different entry, and the
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423 text in the buffer changes to match. Enough @kbd{M-y} commands can move
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424 the pointer to any entry in the ring, so you can get any entry into the
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425 buffer. Eventually the pointer reaches the end of the ring; the next
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426 @kbd{M-y} loops back around to the first entry again.
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427
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428 @kbd{M-y} moves the ``last yank'' pointer around the ring, but it does
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429 not change the order of the entries in the ring, which always runs from
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430 the most recent kill at the front to the oldest one still remembered.
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431
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432 @kbd{M-y} can take a numeric argument, which tells it how many entries
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433 to advance the ``last yank'' pointer by. A negative argument moves the
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434 pointer toward the front of the ring; from the front of the ring, it
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435 moves ``around'' to the last entry and continues forward from there.
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436
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437 Once the text you are looking for is brought into the buffer, you can
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438 stop doing @kbd{M-y} commands and it will stay there. It's just a copy
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439 of the kill ring entry, so editing it in the buffer does not change
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440 what's in the ring. As long as no new killing is done, the ``last
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441 yank'' pointer remains at the same place in the kill ring, so repeating
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442 @kbd{C-y} will yank another copy of the same previous kill.
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443
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444 If you know how many @kbd{M-y} commands it would take to find the
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445 text you want, you can yank that text in one step using @kbd{C-y} with
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446 a numeric argument. @kbd{C-y} with an argument restores the text from
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447 the specified kill ring entry, counting back from the most recent as
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448 1. Thus, @kbd{C-u 2 C-y} gets the next-to-the-last block of killed
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449 text---it is equivalent to @kbd{C-y M-y}. @kbd{C-y} with a numeric
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450 argument starts counting from the ``last yank'' pointer, and sets the
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451 ``last yank'' pointer to the entry that it yanks.
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452
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453 @vindex kill-ring-max
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454 The length of the kill ring is controlled by the variable
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455 @code{kill-ring-max}; no more than that many blocks of killed text are
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456 saved.
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457
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458 @vindex kill-ring
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459 The actual contents of the kill ring are stored in a variable named
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460 @code{kill-ring}; you can view the entire contents of the kill ring with
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461 the command @kbd{C-h v kill-ring}.
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462
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463 @node Accumulating Text, Rectangles, Yanking, Top
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464 @section Accumulating Text
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465 @findex append-to-buffer
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466 @findex prepend-to-buffer
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467 @findex copy-to-buffer
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468 @findex append-to-file
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469
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470 @cindex accumulating scattered text
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471 Usually we copy or move text by killing it and yanking it, but there
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472 are other convenient methods for copying one block of text in many
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473 places, or for copying many scattered blocks of text into one place. To
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474 copy one block to many places, store it in a register
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475 (@pxref{Registers}). Here we describe the commands to accumulate
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476 scattered pieces of text into a buffer or into a file.
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477
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478 @table @kbd
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479 @item M-x append-to-buffer
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480 Append region to the contents of a specified buffer.
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481 @item M-x prepend-to-buffer
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482 Prepend region to the contents of a specified buffer.
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483 @item M-x copy-to-buffer
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484 Copy region into a specified buffer, deleting that buffer's old contents.
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485 @item M-x insert-buffer
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486 Insert the contents of a specified buffer into current buffer at point.
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487 @item M-x append-to-file
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488 Append region to the contents of a specified file, at the end.
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489 @end table
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490
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491 To accumulate text into a buffer, use @kbd{M-x append-to-buffer}.
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492 This reads a buffer name, then inserts a copy of the region into the
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493 buffer specified. If you specify a nonexistent buffer,
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494 @code{append-to-buffer} creates the buffer. The text is inserted
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495 wherever point is in that buffer. If you have been using the buffer for
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496 editing, the copied text goes into the middle of the text of the buffer,
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497 starting from wherever point happens to be at that moment.
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498
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499 Point in that buffer is left at the end of the copied text, so
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500 successive uses of @code{append-to-buffer} accumulate the text in the
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501 specified buffer in the same order as they were copied. Strictly
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502 speaking, @code{append-to-buffer} does not always append to the text
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503 already in the buffer---it appends only if point in that buffer is at the end.
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504 However, if @code{append-to-buffer} is the only command you use to alter
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505 a buffer, then point is always at the end.
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506
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507 @kbd{M-x prepend-to-buffer} is just like @code{append-to-buffer}
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508 except that point in the other buffer is left before the copied text, so
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509 successive prependings add text in reverse order. @kbd{M-x
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510 copy-to-buffer} is similar, except that any existing text in the other
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511 buffer is deleted, so the buffer is left containing just the text newly
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512 copied into it.
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513
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514 To retrieve the accumulated text from another buffer, use the
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515 command @kbd{M-x insert-buffer}; this too takes @var{buffername} as an
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516 argument. It inserts a copy of the whole text in buffer
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517 @var{buffername} into the current buffer at point, and sets the mark
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518 after the inserted text. Alternatively, you can select the other
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519 buffer for editing, then copy text from it by killing.
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520 @xref{Buffers}, for background information on buffers.
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521
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522 Instead of accumulating text within Emacs, in a buffer, you can append
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523 text directly into a file with @kbd{M-x append-to-file}, which takes
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524 @var{filename} as an argument. It adds the text of the region to the end
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525 of the specified file. The file is changed immediately on disk.
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526
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527 You should use @code{append-to-file} only with files that are
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528 @emph{not} being visited in Emacs. Using it on a file that you are
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529 editing in Emacs would change the file behind Emacs's back, which
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530 can lead to losing some of your editing.
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532 @node Rectangles, CUA Bindings, Accumulating Text, Top
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533 @section Rectangles
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534 @cindex rectangle
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535 @cindex columns (and rectangles)
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536 @cindex killing rectangular areas of text
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537
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538 The rectangle commands operate on rectangular areas of the text: all
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539 the characters between a certain pair of columns, in a certain range of
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540 lines. Commands are provided to kill rectangles, yank killed rectangles,
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541 clear them out, fill them with blanks or text, or delete them. Rectangle
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542 commands are useful with text in multicolumn formats, and for changing
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543 text into or out of such formats.
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544
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545 When you must specify a rectangle for a command to work on, you do it
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546 by putting the mark at one corner and point at the opposite corner. The
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547 rectangle thus specified is called the @dfn{region-rectangle} because
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548 you control it in much the same way as the region is controlled. But
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549 remember that a given combination of point and mark values can be
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550 interpreted either as a region or as a rectangle, depending on the
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551 command that uses them.
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552
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553 If point and the mark are in the same column, the rectangle they
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554 delimit is empty. If they are in the same line, the rectangle is one
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555 line high. This asymmetry between lines and columns comes about
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556 because point (and likewise the mark) is between two columns, but within
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557 a line.
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558
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559 @table @kbd
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560 @item C-x r k
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561 Kill the text of the region-rectangle, saving its contents as the
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562 ``last killed rectangle'' (@code{kill-rectangle}).
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563 @item C-x r d
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564 Delete the text of the region-rectangle (@code{delete-rectangle}).
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565 @item C-x r y
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566 Yank the last killed rectangle with its upper left corner at point
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567 (@code{yank-rectangle}).
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568 @item C-x r o
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569 Insert blank space to fill the space of the region-rectangle
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570 (@code{open-rectangle}). This pushes the previous contents of the
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571 region-rectangle rightward.
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572 @item C-x r c
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573 Clear the region-rectangle by replacing its contents with spaces
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574 (@code{clear-rectangle}).
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575 @item M-x delete-whitespace-rectangle
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576 Delete whitespace in each of the lines on the specified rectangle,
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577 starting from the left edge column of the rectangle.
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578 @item C-x r t @var{string} @key{RET}
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579 Replace rectangle contents with @var{string} on each line.
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580 (@code{string-rectangle}).
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581 @item M-x string-insert-rectangle @key{RET} @var{string} @key{RET}
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582 Insert @var{string} on each line of the rectangle.
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583 @end table
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584
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585 The rectangle operations fall into two classes: commands for
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586 deleting and inserting rectangles, and commands for blank rectangles.
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587
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588 @kindex C-x r k
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589 @kindex C-x r d
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590 @findex kill-rectangle
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591 @findex delete-rectangle
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592 There are two ways to get rid of the text in a rectangle: you can
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593 discard the text (delete it) or save it as the ``last killed''
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594 rectangle. The commands for these two ways are @kbd{C-x r d}
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595 (@code{delete-rectangle}) and @kbd{C-x r k} (@code{kill-rectangle}). In
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596 either case, the portion of each line that falls inside the rectangle's
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597 boundaries is deleted, causing any following text on the line to
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598 move left into the gap.
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599
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600 Note that ``killing'' a rectangle is not killing in the usual sense; the
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601 rectangle is not stored in the kill ring, but in a special place that
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602 can only record the most recent rectangle killed. This is because yanking
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603 a rectangle is so different from yanking linear text that different yank
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604 commands have to be used and yank-popping is hard to make sense of.
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605
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606 @kindex C-x r y
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607 @findex yank-rectangle
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608 To yank the last killed rectangle, type @kbd{C-x r y}
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609 (@code{yank-rectangle}). Yanking a rectangle is the opposite of killing
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610 one. Point specifies where to put the rectangle's upper left corner.
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611 The rectangle's first line is inserted there, the rectangle's second
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612 line is inserted at the same horizontal position, but one line
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613 vertically down, and so on. The number of lines affected is determined
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614 by the height of the saved rectangle.
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615
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616 You can convert single-column lists into double-column lists using
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617 rectangle killing and yanking; kill the second half of the list as a
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618 rectangle and then yank it beside the first line of the list.
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619 @xref{Two-Column}, for another way to edit multi-column text.
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620
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621 You can also copy rectangles into and out of registers with @kbd{C-x r
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622 r @var{r}} and @kbd{C-x r i @var{r}}. @xref{RegRect,,Rectangle
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623 Registers}.
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624
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625 @kindex C-x r o
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626 @findex open-rectangle
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627 @kindex C-x r c
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628 @findex clear-rectangle
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629 There are two commands you can use for making blank rectangles:
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630 @kbd{C-x r c} (@code{clear-rectangle}) which blanks out existing text,
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631 and @kbd{C-x r o} (@code{open-rectangle}) which inserts a blank
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632 rectangle. Clearing a rectangle is equivalent to deleting it and then
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633 inserting a blank rectangle of the same size.
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634
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635 @findex delete-whitespace-rectangle
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636 The command @kbd{M-x delete-whitespace-rectangle} deletes horizontal
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637 whitespace starting from a particular column. This applies to each of
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638 the lines in the rectangle, and the column is specified by the left
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639 edge of the rectangle. The right edge of the rectangle does not make
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640 any difference to this command.
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641
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642 @kindex C-x r t
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643 @findex string-rectangle
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644 The command @kbd{C-x r t} (@code{string-rectangle}) replaces the
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645 contents of a region-rectangle with a string on each line. The
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646 string's width need not be the same as the width of the rectangle. If
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647 the string's width is less, the text after the rectangle shifts left;
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648 if the string is wider than the rectangle, the text after the
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649 rectangle shifts right.
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650
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651 @findex string-insert-rectangle
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652 The command @kbd{M-x string-insert-rectangle} is similar to
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653 @code{string-rectangle}, but inserts the string on each line,
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654 shifting the original text to the right.
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655
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656 @node CUA Bindings, Registers, Rectangles, Top
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657 @section CUA Bindings
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658 @findex cua-mode
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659 @vindex cua-mode
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660 @cindex CUA key bindings
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661 @vindex cua-enable-cua-keys
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662 The command @kbd{M-x cua-mode} sets up key bindings that are
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663 compatible with the Common User Access (CUA) system used in many other
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664 applications. @kbd{C-x} means cut (kill), @kbd{C-c} copy, @kbd{C-v}
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665 paste (yank), and @kbd{C-z} undo. Standard Emacs commands like
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666 @kbd{C-x C-c} still work, because @kbd{C-x} and @kbd{C-c} only take
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667 effect when the mark is active (and the region is highlighted).
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668 However, if you don't want these bindings at all, set
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669 @code{cua-enable-cua-keys} to @code{nil}.
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670
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671 In CUA mode, using @kbd{Shift} together with the movement keys
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672 activates and highlights the region over which they move. The
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673 standard (unshifted) movement keys deactivate the mark, and typed text
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674 replaces the active region as in Delete-Selection mode
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675 (@pxref{Graphical Kill}).
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676
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677 To run a command like @kbd{C-x C-f} while the mark is active, use
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678 one of the following methods: either hold @kbd{Shift} together with
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679 the prefix key, e.g. @kbd{S-C-x C-f}, or quickly type the prefix key
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680 twice, e.g. @kbd{C-x C-x C-f}.
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681
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682 @cindex rectangle highlighting
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683 CUA mode provides enhanced rectangle support with visible
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684 rectangle highlighting. Use @kbd{C-RET} to start a rectangle,
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685 extend it using the movement commands, and cut or copy it using
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686 @kbd{C-x} or @kbd{C-c}. @kbd{RET} moves the cursor to the next
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687 (clockwise) corner of the rectangle, so you can easily expand it in
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688 any direction. Normal text you type is inserted to the left or right
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689 of each line in the rectangle (on the same side as the cursor).
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690
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691 With CUA you can easily copy text and rectangles into and out of
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692 registers by providing a one-digit numeric prefix the the kill, copy,
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693 and yank commands, e.g. @kbd{C-1 C-c} copies the region into register
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694 @code{1}, and @kbd{C-2 C-v} yanks the contents of register @code{2}.
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695
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696 @cindex global mark
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697 CUA mode also has a global mark feature which allows easy moving and
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698 copying of text between buffers. Use @kbd{C-S-SPC} to toggle the
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699 global mark on and off. When the global mark is on, all text that you
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700 kill or copy is automatically inserted at the global mark, and text
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701 you type is inserted at the global mark rather than at the current
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702 position.
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703
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704 For example, to copy words from various buffers into a word list in
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705 a given buffer, set the global mark in the target buffer, then
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706 navigate to each of the words you want in the list, mark it (e.g. with
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707 @kbd{S-M-f}), copy it to the list with @kbd{C-c} or @kbd{M-w}, and
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708 insert a newline after the word in the target list by pressing
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709 @key{RET}.
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710
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711 @ifnottex
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712 @lowersections
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713 @end ifnottex
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714
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715 @ignore
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716 arch-tag: d8da8f96-0928-449a-816e-ff2d3497866c
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717 @end ignore