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(emacs-lisp-intro.info)Cutting & Storing Text

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Cutting and Storing Text
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   Whenever you cut or clip text out of a buffer with a `kill' command
in GNU Emacs, it is stored in a list and you can bring it back with a
`yank' command.

   (The use of the word `kill' in Emacs for processes which specifically
_do not_ destroy the values of the entities is an unfortunate
historical accident.  A much more appropriate word would be `clip' since
that is what the kill commands do; they clip text out of a buffer and
put it into storage from which it can be brought back.  I have often
been tempted to replace globally all occurrences of `kill' in the Emacs
sources with `clip' and all occurrences of `killed' with `clipped'.)

Storing Text

Text is stored in a list.

zap-to-char

Cutting out text up to a character.

kill-region

Cutting text out of a region.

Digression into C

Minor note on C programming language macros.

defvar

How to give a variable an initial value.

copy-region-as-kill

A definition for copying text.

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