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8. Cutting and Storing Text

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 in a List    Text is stored in a list.

8.1 zap-to-char    Cutting out text up to a character.

8.2 kill-region    Cutting text out of a region.

8.3 delete-and-extract-region: Digressing into C    Minor note on C programming language macros.

8.4 Initializing a Variable with defvar    How to give a variable an initial value.

8.5 copy-region-as-kill    A definition for copying text.

8.6 Review

8.7 Searching Exercises

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Storing Text in a List		Text is stored in a list.
8.1 `zap-to-char`		Cutting out text up to a character.
8.2 `kill-region`		Cutting text out of a region.
8.3 `delete-and-extract-region`: Digressing into C		Minor note on C programming language macros.
8.4 Initializing a Variable with `defvar`		How to give a variable an initial value.
8.5 `copy-region-as-kill`		A definition for copying text.
8.6 Review
8.7 Searching Exercises