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Re: EMACS Cut and Paste commands?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hentosh)
Mon Nov 16 12:51:37 1998
From: "Hentosh" <hentosh@io.com>
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:48:45 -0600
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>I am trying to learn how to use EMACS (using Redhat 5.0 and no X-windows).
>One of the things that I find frustrating is doing Cut and Paste
operations.
>
>I figured out how to use <CTRL-K> and <CTRL-Y> to cut and paste a line. But
>how can I easily mark, cut and paste a block?
You can cut a block one line at a time with multiple <ctrl-k>'s and then
yank it
back with one <ctrl-y>.
>In DO$ EDIT I can hold down the shift key and use the cursor to mark, then
>do a <CTRL-X> to cut and a <CTRL-V> to paste. Is there an equivalent set of
>commands in EMACS?
I am not sure of your key-bindings ... but on my machine I hit <ctrl-2> (I
believe it is
supposed to be <ctrl-@> but <ctrl-2> also works.) and that 'sets the mark'
and then
move to the end of the block and hit <ctrl-w> to cut the block or <meta-w>
to copy the
block and then you can yank it back with <ctrl-y>. This is all explained in
the tutorial of
emacs which is built in... just type "<ctrl-h> t".
>TIA,
>Dave
>
>PS. Yes I did read the help in EMACS but I still could not figure it out...
Not sure if you ment the help 'info' screens or the tutorial.... take a look
at the tutorial if
you haven't.
Hoped that helped.
Robert
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