"Kill between point and mark.
The text is deleted but saved in the kill ring.
The command \\[yank] can retrieve it from there.
-/(If you want to kill and then yank immediately, use \\[copy-region-as-kill].)
+\(If you want to kill and then yank immediately, use \\[copy-region-as-kill].)
This is the primitive for programs to kill text (as opposed to deleting it).
Supply two arguments, character positions indicating the stretch of text