How to move regions of text (CUT & PASTE)
The cut and paste behavior of Emacs is similar to most other standard
X applications.
- Dragging with the LEFT mouse button now puts the selected region
in the kill ring so you can paste it into other X applications. The
old method of clicking at the beginning with the LEFT mouse button
and at the end with the RIGHT mouse button still works, but the
cursor will end up at the end of the region instead of at the beginning.
- Double and triple clicks with the LEFT mouse button now select the
word or line surrounding where you click. If you drag after the last
click, you can select a range of words or lines.
- Clicking and dragging the RIGHT mouse button now extends a previously
mouse-selected region, from the end of the region that is closer to
where you click.
- As before, clicking the RIGHT mouse button in the same place
kills the region selected.
The following commands will also allow various specific cut-and-pastes:
Ctrl-<space> Either of these commands will set a mark. A mark is an
or an invisible pointer which will be used to mark the starting
Ctrl-@: character of the region you wish to delete or move. If
you place the mark in the wrong place, you can set it
elsewhere with the same command.
Ctrl-w: This command will kill all of the text between the mark
location and the current emacs cursor position. This text
can be retrieved with the following command unless you kill
another block of text.
Meta-w: This command will "save" all of the text between the mark
location and the current emacs cursor position; it can then
be retrieved with the following command unless you kill/save
another block of text.
Ctrl-y: This command will yank back the text which was deleted
most recently with the above command. The text will be
placed at the current emacs cursor location. You can
yank back the text as many times as you wish.
Meta-y: When you kill or copy a region of text, it doesn't
forget about previous kills. Instead, it keeps track of
them in a "stack" fashion. If you want to yank the
region you killed before the last one, hit Ctrl-y to
yank, and then Meta-y to yank the previous kill
*instead* of the one you just retrieved. You can keep
hitting Meta-y as many times as you like, if you want to
recover something killed a while back. The maximum number
of kills remembered at any given time defaults to 30.
Ctrl-x u: This is the undo command. This is useful if you yank back
text at the wrong location or sometimes if you delete
something you didn't mean to. Each time you repeat this
command, emacs will undo a previous change to your file.
Please note that when you use Ctrl-w or Meta-w to put a region of text
in the kill ring, it will become the current X selection. Likewise,
when you use Ctrl-y to grab a region of text from the kill ring, it
wil use the current selection if you've selected text recently.
To disable this behavior, place the following lines in your .emacs file:
(setq interprogram-cut-function nil)
(setq interprogram-paste-function nil)
Last Updated: 4/15/00
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