Deleting text.

DEL

deletes the character preceding the cursor. At the beginning of a line, it deletes the preceding end-of-line character, thus joining the current and preceding lines.

M-DEL

deletes the word preceding the cursor. The deleted word moves to the kill buffer, described later.

C-w

is the same as M-DEL in our version of Emacs. This is not standard, but is provided to avoid confusion with its common use in the shell.

C-d

deletes the character under the cursor (which can be the end-of-line).

M-d

deletes the word following the cursor.

C-k

deletes the rest of the line following the cursor. If the cursor is on the end-of-line, delete the end-of-line. The deleted line moves to the kill buffer.

M- 1#1

deletes all horizontal blank space on either side of the cursor.

M-SPC

deletes all but one horizontal blank space surrounding the cursor.

C-x C-o

on non-blank line, deletes all immediately following blank lines; on isolated blank line, deletes the line; on other blank lines, deletes all but one.

M-W

deletes everything between the point and the mark. In standard Emacs, this is C-w, but in our version, this is modified to prevent confusion with the same character in the shell.