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(emacs)Other Kill Commands

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Other Kill Commands
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`C-w'
     Kill region (from point to the mark) (`kill-region').

`M-d'
     Kill word (`kill-word').  Note: Words.

`M-<DEL>'
     Kill word backwards (`backward-kill-word').

`C-x <DEL>'
     Kill back to beginning of sentence (`backward-kill-sentence').
     Note: Sentences.

`M-k'
     Kill to end of sentence (`kill-sentence').

`C-M-k'
     Kill the following balanced expression (`kill-sexp').  Note:
     Expressions.

`M-z CHAR'
     Kill through the next occurrence of CHAR (`zap-to-char').

   A kill command which is very general is `C-w' (`kill-region'), which
kills everything between point and the mark.  With this command, you
can kill any contiguous sequence of characters, if you first set the
region around them.

   A convenient way of killing is combined with searching: `M-z'
(`zap-to-char') 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.

   Other syntactic units can be killed: words, with `M-<DEL>' and `M-d'
(Note: Words); balanced expressions, with `C-M-k' (Note:
Expressions); and sentences, with `C-x <DEL>' and `M-k' (Note:
Sentences).

   You can use kill commands in read-only buffers.  They don't actually
change the buffer, and they beep to warn you of that, but they do copy
the text you tried to kill into the kill ring, so you can yank it into
other buffers.  Most of the kill commands move point across the text
they copy in this way, so that successive kill commands build up a
single kill ring entry as usual.