commands that can remove a lot of text kill the text (they set up so
that you can yank the text), while the commands that remove just one
character, or only remove blank lines and spaces, do deletion (so you
-cannot yank that text).
+cannot yank that text). <Delback> and C-d do deletion in the simplest
+case, with no argument. When given an argument, they kill instead.
>> Move the cursor to the beginning of a line which is not empty.
Then type C-k to kill the text on that line.
This tutorial descends from a long line of Emacs tutorials
starting with the one written by Stuart Cracraft for the original Emacs.
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