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Delete next character (`delete-char').
Delete previous character (`delete-backward-char').
Delete spaces and tabs around point (`delete-horizontal-space').
Delete spaces and tabs around point, leaving one space
Delete blank lines around the current line (`delete-blank-lines').
Join two lines by deleting the intervening newline, along with any
indentation following it (`delete-indentation').
The most basic delete commands are `C-d' (`delete-char') and DEL
(`delete-backward-char'). `C-d' deletes the character after point, the
one the cursor is "on top of". This doesn't move point. DEL deletes
the character before the cursor, and moves point back. You can delete
newlines like any other characters in the buffer; deleting a newline
joins two lines. Actually, `C-d' and DEL aren't always delete
commands; when given arguments, they kill instead, since they can erase
more than one character this way.
The other delete commands are those which delete only whitespace
characters: spaces, tabs and newlines. `M-\'
(`delete-horizontal-space') deletes all the spaces and tab characters
before and after point. `M-SPC' (`just-one-space') does likewise but
leaves a single space after point, regardless of the number of spaces
that existed previously (even zero).
`C-x C-o' (`delete-blank-lines') deletes all blank lines after the
current line. If the current line is blank, it deletes all blank lines
preceding the current line as well (leaving one blank line, the current
`M-^' (`delete-indentation') joins the current line and the previous
line, by deleting a newline and all surrounding spaces, usually leaving
a single space. Note: M-^.
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