Mercurial > emacs
changeset 56692:ccb70b8731b4
(Yanking, Killing): Minor cleanups.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:50:44 +0000 |
| parents | 378fee0ad45e |
| children | d66d7e7354e3 |
| files | man/killing.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/killing.texi Mon Aug 16 22:49:16 2004 +0000 +++ b/man/killing.texi Mon Aug 16 22:50:44 2004 +0000 @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ @cindex killing text @cindex cutting text @cindex deletion - Most commands which erase text from the buffer save it in the kill -ring so that you can move or copy it to other parts of the buffer. + Most commands which erase text from the buffer save it in the @dfn{kill +ring} so that you can move or copy it to other parts of the buffer. These commands are known as @dfn{kill} commands. The rest of the commands that erase text do not save it in the kill ring; they are known as @dfn{delete} commands. (This distinction is made only for erasure of @@ -274,7 +274,8 @@ @dfn{Yanking} means reinserting text previously killed. This is what some systems call ``pasting.'' The usual way to move or copy text is to -kill it and then yank it elsewhere one or more times. +kill it and then yank it elsewhere one or more times. This is very safe +because Emacs remembers many recent kills, not just the last one. @table @kbd @item C-y