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Re: Arrow Keys?


From: Teemu Likonen
Subject: Re: Arrow Keys?
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:12:41 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux)

On 2009-06-13 09:45 (-0600), notbob@bb.nothome.com wrote:

> BTW, I know about yank, but that cuts text.  Is there a similar
> function for just copying text without cutting it?

I'm not sure how yank (C-y) is related to cutting but the basic cut and
copy commands are these:

    C-w = kill-region       ("cut")
    M-w = kill-ring-save    ("copy")

You may want to read these sections from the manual:

    C-h r m Killing RET
    C-h r m Yanking RET


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