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 8 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”.)

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· 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.
· copy-region-as-kill         A definition for copying text.
· Digression into C           Minor note on C programming language macros.
· defvar                      How to give a variable an initial value.
· cons & search-fwd Review
· search Exercises
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