Re: cutting and copying and pasting in emacs.
Mat> Hi all. I ran into a slight difficulty. In emacs, i realise you
Mat> can do C-w and C-SPC to cut tetxt from a buffer which can then be
Mat> yanked into a buffer with C-Y. However, if you are reviewing a
Mat> buffer that is read only, you cannot grab the text out in this
Mat> way. So is there a command in emacs which allows you to copy a
Mat> block rather than cut it. Thanks. Mat.
C-h k M-w
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