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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: Text is stored in a list.
• zap-to-char: Cutting out text up to a character.
• kill-region: Cutting text out of a region.
• Digression into C: Minor note on C programming language macros.
• defvar: How to give a variable an initial value.
• copy-region-as-kill: A definition for copying text.
• cons & search-fwd Review:
• search Exercises: