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 12 Killing and Moving Text
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 In Emacs, “killing” means erasing text and copying it into the “kill
 ring”.  “Yanking” means bringing text from the kill ring back into the
 buffer.  (Some applications use the terms “cutting” and “pasting” for
 similar operations.)  The kill ring is so-named because it can be
 visualized as a set of blocks of text arranged in a ring, which you can
 access in cyclic order.  Kill Ring.
 
    Killing and yanking are the most common way to move or copy text
 within Emacs.  It is very versatile, because there are commands for
 killing many different types of syntactic units.

 
· Deletion and Killing Commands that remove text.
· Yanking              Commands that insert text.
· Cut and Paste        Clipboard and selections on graphical displays.
· Accumulating Text    Other methods to add text to the buffer.
· Rectangles           Operating on text in rectangular areas.
· CUA Bindings         Using ‘C-x’/‘C-c’/‘C-v’ to kill and yank.

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