Killing

Killing is the general method for deleting a piece of text so that it can later be re-inserted into a buffer. Each time you kill some text it is stored in the window-system's clipboard (see see section Cutting And Pasting) where it can be accessed by Jade or other programs.

The text copied by successive kill commands are concatenated together, this makes it easy to incrementally save text a piece at a time.

The main commands for killing are as follows, they are only described in brief since their full descriptions are in other parts of the manual.

Ctrl-w

Kill the current block. See section Using Blocks.

Meta-w

Kill the current block without actually deleting it from the buffer.

Ctrl-k

Kills the current line. See section Editing Lines.

Meta-d

Kill the word starting from the cursor. See section Editing Words.

Meta-Backspace

Kills from the cursor to the beginning of the current word.

Ctrl-Meta-k

Kill the expression following the cursor. See section Editing Expressions.

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