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		AdamH12113 on Oct 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fifteen Word Processor Commandments (1984) > 5. You [should be able to] delete a character, word, text to end-of-line, and a complete sentence with a single keystroke (or combination of keystrokes if your keyboard has no function keys) at any time. Is there a standard way of doing this on modern PCs? Seems like it would be handy given how much text we produce.

d0mine on Oct 15, 2023 | [–]

In Emacs to delete a char: C-d, word: M-d

end-of-line: C-k, -sentence: M-k

C -> Ctrl key, M -> Alt key

runsonrum on Oct 15, 2023 | [–]

This is probably the closest you will come.

Press Home, then Shift + End or vise versa.

https://superuser.com/questions/947296/is-there-a-keyboard-s...

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