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Delete the character before point, or the region if it is active
(delete-backward-char).
Delete the character after point, or the region if it is active
(delete-forward-char).
Delete the character after point (delete-char).
Kill to the end of the line (kill-line).
Kill forward to the end of the next word (kill-word).
Kill back to the beginning of the previous word
(backward-kill-word).
The DEL (delete-backward-char) command removes
the character before point, moving the cursor and the characters after
it backwards. If point was at the beginning of a line, this deletes
the preceding newline, joining this line to the previous one.
If, however, the region is active, DEL instead deletes the text in the region. See Mark, for a description of the region.
On most keyboards, DEL is labeled BACKSPACE, but we refer to it as DEL in this manual. (Do not confuse DEL with the Delete key; we will discuss Delete momentarily.) On some text terminals, Emacs may not recognize the DEL key properly. See DEL Does Not Delete, if you encounter this problem.
The Delete (delete-forward-char) command deletes in the
opposite direction: it deletes the character after point, i.e., the
character under the cursor. If point was at the end of a line, this
joins the following line onto this one. Like DEL, it
deletes the text in the region if the region is active (see Mark).
C-d (delete-char) deletes the character after point,
similar to Delete, but regardless of whether the region is
active.
See Deletion, for more detailed information about the above deletion commands.
C-k (kill-line) erases (kills) a line at a time. If
you type C-k at the beginning or middle of a line, it kills all
the text up to the end of the line. If you type C-k at the end
of a line, it joins that line with the following line.
See Killing, for more information about C-k and related commands.
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