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Chapter 8: The Emacs Editor

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Deletion Commands

Paragraphs and Regions

Stopping and Undoing Commands

Transposition Commands

Keystrokes Command name Description

Del backward-delete-char Delete previous character.

C-d delete-char Delete character under cursor.

M-Del backward-kill-word Delete previous word.

M-d kill-word Delete the word the cursor is on.

C-k kill-line Delete from cursor to end of line.

M-k kill-sentence Delete sentence the cursor is on.

C-x Del backward-kill-sentence Delete previous sentence.

C-y yank Restore what you’ve deleted.

C-w kill-region Delete a marked region (see next section).

(none) backward-kill-paragraph Delete previous paragraph.

(none) kill-paragraph Delete from the cursor tothe end of theparagraph.

Keystrokes Command name Description

C-@ set-mark-command Mark the beginning (or end) of a region.

C-Space (same as above) (same as above)

C-x C-p mark-page Mark page.

C-x C-x exchange-point-and-mark Exchange location of cursor and mark.

C-x h mark-whole-buffer Mark buffer.

M-q fill-paragraph Reformat paragraph.

(none) fill-region Reformat individual paragraphs within a region.

M-h mark-paragraph Mark paragraph.

Keystrokes Command name Description

C-g keyboard-quit Abort current command.

C-_ advertised-undo Undo last edit (can be done repeatedly).

(none) revert-buffer