[ih] cut and paste

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Mon Aug 7 17:52:47 PDT 2023


    > From: Steve Crocker

    > EMACS had - and still has - control-X for cutting, control-C for
    > copying, and, IIRC, control-V for pasting.

Never depend on unreliable human memory when original documentation is a few
clicks away! The "EMACS Manual for ITS Users":

  https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6329

reveals that your memory has dropped a few bits; see "Chapter Nine: Killing
and Moving Text - Section 9.2. Un-Killing" (pg. 45 of the PDF).

The characters you cite - ^C/^X/^V - are the Windows characters for those
commands.

	Noel



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