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authorRichard M. Stallman <[email protected]>2005-01-01 05:02:09 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <[email protected]>2005-01-01 05:02:09 +0000
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(Killing): Reorganize section.
No more TeX-only text; put the node command at start of chapter. But the first section heading is used only in TeX. Rewrite the text to read better in this mode. (Graphical Kill): New subnode gets some of the text that used to be in the first section.
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@c Copyright (C) 1985,86,87,93,94,95,97,2000,2001,2004
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
-@iftex
-@chapter Killing and Moving Text
-
- @dfn{Killing} means erasing text and copying it into the @dfn{kill
-ring}, from which it can be retrieved by @dfn{yanking} it. Some systems
-use the terms ``cutting'' and ``pasting'' for these operations.
-
- The most common way of moving or copying text within Emacs is to kill it
-and later yank it elsewhere in one or more places. This is very safe
-because Emacs remembers several recent kills, not just the last one. It
-is versatile, because the many commands for killing syntactic units can
-also be used for moving those units. But there are other ways of
-copying text for special purposes.
-
- On terminals that support multiple windows for multiple applications,
-the kill commands also provide a way to select text for other applications
-to copy, and the Emacs yank commands can access selections made by
-other programs.
-
- Emacs has only one kill ring for all buffers, so you can kill text in
-one buffer and yank it in another buffer.
-@end iftex
+@node Killing, Yanking, Mark, Top
+@chapter Killing and Moving Text
@ifnottex
@raisesections
@end ifnottex
-@node Killing, Yanking, Mark, Top
+ @dfn{Killing} means erasing text and copying it into the @dfn{kill
+ring}, from which you can bring it back into the buffer by
+@dfn{yanking} it. (Some systems use the terms ``cutting'' and
+``pasting'' for these operations.) This is the most common way of
+moving or copying text within Emacs. Killing and yanking is very safe
+because Emacs remembers several recent kills, not just the last one.
+It is versatile, because the many commands for killing syntactic units
+can also be used for moving those units. But there are other ways of
+copying text for special purposes.
+
+@iftex
@section Deletion and Killing
+@end iftex
@cindex killing text
@cindex cutting text
@cindex deletion
- 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
-text in the buffer.) If you do a kill or delete command by mistake, you
-can use the @kbd{C-x u} (@code{undo}) command to undo it
-(@pxref{Undo}).
-
-@vindex kill-read-only-ok
-@cindex read-only text, killing
- You cannot kill read-only text, since such text does not allow any
-kind of modification. But some users like to use the kill commands to
-copy read-only text into the kill ring, without actually changing it.
-Therefore, the kill commands work specially in a read-only buffer:
-they move over text, and copy it to the kill ring, without actually
-deleting it from the buffer. Normally, Emacs beeps and prints an
-error message when this happens. But if you set the variable
-@code{kill-read-only-ok} to a non-@code{nil} value, it just prints a
-message in the echo area, telling you what is happening.
+ Most commands which erase text from the buffer save it in the kill
+ring. These commands are known as @dfn{kill} commands. The commands
+that erase text but do not save it in the kill ring are known as
+@dfn{delete} commands. The @kbd{C-x u} (@code{undo}) command
+(@pxref{Undo}) can undo both kill and delete commands; the importance
+of the kill ring is that you can also yank the text in a different
+place or places. Emacs has only one kill ring for all buffers, so you
+can kill text in one buffer and yank it in another buffer.
The delete commands include @kbd{C-d} (@code{delete-char}) and
@key{DEL} (@code{delete-backward-char}), which delete only one
character at a time, and those commands that delete only spaces or
-newlines. Commands that can destroy significant amounts of nontrivial
+newlines. Commands that can erase significant amounts of nontrivial
data generally do a kill operation instead. The commands' names and
individual descriptions use the words @samp{kill} and @samp{delete} to
say which kind of operation they perform.
- On window systems, the most recent kill done in Emacs is also the
-primary selection, if it is more recent than any selection you made in
-another program. This means that the paste commands of other window
-applications copy the text that you killed in Emacs.
-
-@cindex Delete Selection mode
-@cindex mode, Delete Selection
-@findex delete-selection-mode
- Many window systems follow the convention that insertion while text
-is selected deletes the selected text. You can make Emacs behave this
-way by enabling Delete Selection mode, with @kbd{M-x
-delete-selection-mode}, or using Custom. Another effect of this mode
-is that @key{DEL}, @kbd{C-d} and some other keys, when a selection
-exists, will kill the whole selection. It also enables Transient Mark
-mode (@pxref{Transient Mark}).
+@vindex kill-read-only-ok
+@cindex read-only text, killing
+ You cannot kill read-only text, since such text does not allow any
+kind of modification. But some users like to use the kill commands to
+copy read-only text into the kill ring, without actually changing it.
+Therefore, the kill commands work specially in a read-only buffer:
+they move over text, and copy it to the kill ring, without actually
+deleting it from the buffer. Normally, kill commands beep and display
+an error message when this happens. But if you set the variable
+@code{kill-read-only-ok} to a non-@code{nil} value, they just print a
+message in the echo area to explain why the text has not been erased.
@menu
* Deletion:: Commands for deleting small amounts of text and
@@ -87,6 +62,8 @@ mode (@pxref{Transient Mark}).
* Killing by Lines:: How to kill entire lines of text at one time.
* Other Kill Commands:: Commands to kill large regions of text and
syntactic units such as words and sentences.
+* Graphical Kill:: The kill ring on graphical terminals:
+ yanking between applications.
@end menu
@need 1500
@@ -652,6 +629,28 @@ rectangle shifts right.
@code{string-rectangle}, but inserts the string on each line,
shifting the original text to the right.
+@node Graphical Kill
+@section Killing on Graphical Terminals
+
+ On multi-window terminals, the most recent kill done in Emacs is
+also the primary selection, if it is more recent than any selection
+you made in another program. This means that the paste commands of
+other applications with separate windows copy the text that you killed
+in Emacs. In addition, Emacs yank commands treat other applications'
+selections as part of the kill ring, so you can yank them into Emacs.
+
+@cindex Delete Selection mode
+@cindex mode, Delete Selection
+@findex delete-selection-mode
+ Many window systems follow the convention that insertion while text
+is selected deletes the selected text. You can make Emacs behave this
+way by enabling Delete Selection mode, with @kbd{M-x
+delete-selection-mode}, or using Custom. Another effect of this mode
+is that @key{DEL}, @kbd{C-d} and some other keys, when a selection
+exists, will kill the whole selection. It also enables Transient Mark
+mode (@pxref{Transient Mark}).
+
+
@ifnottex
@lowersections
@end ifnottex