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Working with Emacs Kill and Yank
In this lab, you will be opening a file in Emacs to search for and kill selected text. In addition, you will also be yanking text into a new buffer. Basic knowledge of opening files, along with searching and killing/yanking in Emacs, is recommended. Upon completing this lab, you will know how to kill words and regions of text and yank from the kill ring into buffers.
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Challenge
Open a File
- Using Emacs, open the file named
/tmp/kill_and_yank.
- Using Emacs, open the file named
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Challenge
Kill Text from File
- Kill the first two words in the file.
- Kill the phrase "Kill and then yank".
- Kill the paragraph that begins with "No, not me".
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Yank Text into a New Buffer
- Create a new buffer name
/tmp/my_yanks.txt. - Yank the phrase "Kill and yank" into the new buffer.
- Yank the first two words that were killed into the new buffer.
- Save the buffer.
- Create a new buffer name
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