September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
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Kill and Yank
Emacs uses the terms kill and yank for the concepts more commonly known today as cut and paste. You cut text in Emacs by killing it, and paste it by yanking it back. If you do multiple kills in a row, you can yank them back all at once.