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Editing Words

The following commands operate on words. When given a prefix argument they operate on that number of words all in one go.

The syntax of a word depends largely on the major mode being used to edit the buffer with, see section Editing Modes.

Meta-f
Meta-Right
Move forward one word.
Meta-b
Meta-Left
Move back one word.
Meta-d
Meta-DEL
Kills characters from the cursor to the start of the next word. See section Killing.
Meta-Backspace
Kills characters from the start of the previous word to the cursor position.
Meta-t
Transpose words: the word before the cursor is dragged over the following word. An argument means to drag the word over that number of words.
Meta-u
Convert the characters from the cursor to the start of the next word to upper-case.
Meta-l
Similar to Meta-u but converts to lower-case.
Meta-c
Capitalise the word beginning at the cursor position. What happens is that the next alphabetic character is converted to upper-case then the rest of the word is converted to lower-case. Note that an argument to this command currently has no effect.


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