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kill-region
).
kill-word
). See Words.
backward-kill-word
).
backward-kill-sentence
).
See Sentences.
kill-sentence
).
kill-sexp
). See Expressions.
zap-to-char
).
The most general kill command 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 (see Words); balanced expressions, with C-M-k (see Expressions); and sentences, with C-x <DEL> and M-k (see Sentences).