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5.3.2 Editor Functions for Deleting text

Function: backspace, pre-bound to: BS

Kills the character on the left side of the cursor and moves the cursor back one step.

Function: del, pre-bound to: Del

Deletes the character at the current cursor position.

Function: deleol, pre-bound to: Alt-K

Deletes all characters from the current cursor position to the end of the line. This function has no effect if issued in an empty line.

Function: delline, pre-bound to: Alt-D, Ctrl-Y

Deletes all characters in the current line and removes this line.

Function: emacskill, pre-bound to: Ctrl-K

This function works like deleol, i.E. it kills all characters from the current cursor position to the end of the line, but if issued in an empty line, it removes that line. This is just what pressing Ctrl-K does in the GNU Emacs editor.

Function: killword, pre-bound to: Ctrl-T

Deletes all characters from the current cursor position to the end of the current word.

Function: undel, pre-bound to: Ctrl-U

This is a rather limited undelete function. It will restore lines that have previously been killed with the delline function. It will not restore single charactres that have been killed with del, deleol, killword, emacskill or similar functions.

Function: zap, pre-bound to: Alt-L

This function is useful when using the quoted reply features. It will kill all lines below the current cursor position that only contain quoted text (these will usually be highlighted in a different color) until the next unquoted line. This is useful to easily kill quoted signature text etc. Use this to reduce the number of unnecessary quoted lines in your mails!


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