Emacs Kill Commands

Emacs kill commands. Italic text in parenthesis is the elisp command.

• C-w : Kill region (kill-region).
• M-w : Save region as last killed text without actually killing it (kill-ring-save). Some programs call this “copying.”
• M-d : Kill word (kill-word). 
• M-<BS>:kill word backwards (backward-kill-word). 
• C-x <BS> : Kill back to beginning of sentence (backward-kill-sentence).
• M-k : Kill to end of sentence (kill-sentence).  
• M-k : Kill to end of sentence (kill-sentence).    
• C-M-k : Kill the following balanced expression (kill-sexp).  
• M-z char : Kill through the next occurrence of char (zap-to-char).
• M-\ : Kill whitespace forward.