Text

This chapter describes all the functions used for editing and referencing the text stored in a buffer.

Note that where a command has a count argument specifying the number of items to process; this argument will normally use the numeric value of the prefix argument when the function is called interactively.

• Buffer Contents: Accessing the contents of a buffer
• Insertion Functions: Inserting strings into a buffer
• Deletion Functions: Deleting regions of text
• Kill Functions: Recording regions of text
• Transpose Functions: Swapping two regions of text
• Indentation Functions: Functions for managing indentation
• Translation Functions: Applying a mapping to characters in a buffer
• Search and Match Functions: Regexps and general string matching
• Rectangular Editing: Manipulating rectangular regions
• Controlling Undo: How undo works
• Misc Text Functions: Other stuff

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