From 6f3110433aa42516d6f8bc7928b86e2f45153734 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Heuer Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:49:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Discuss C-w. --- etc/TUTORIAL | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/TUTORIAL b/etc/TUTORIAL index 5eacdcf3234..70fb0690072 100644 --- a/etc/TUTORIAL +++ b/etc/TUTORIAL @@ -355,6 +355,19 @@ started by C-f and M-f (well, is not really a control character, but let's not worry about that). C-k and M-k are like C-e and M-e, sort of, in that lines are opposite sentences. +You can also kill any part of the buffer with one uniform method. +Move to one end of that part, and type C-@ or C-SPC (either one). +Move to the other end of that part, and type C-w. That kills +all the text between the two positions. + +>> Move the cursor to the Y at the start of the previous paragraph. +>> Type C-SPC. Emacs should display a message "Mark set" + at the bottom of the screen. +>> Move the cursor to the n in "end", on the second line of the + paragraph. +>> Type C-w. This will kill the text starting from the Y, + and ending just before the n. + When you delete more than one character at a time, Emacs saves the deleted text so that you can bring it back. Bringing back killed text is called "yanking". You can yank the killed text either at the same -- 2.39.2