Use control-K as an extra clipboard in Cocoa apps

Dec 19, '03 11:53:00AM

Contributed by: jakacmar

Most readers here know that most emacs keyboard shortcuts work in cocoa apps (e.g., Control-A to go the beginning of a line). I've been aware of this for a while, but last night noticed something nice. You can use Control-K to cut a pice of text (and Control-Y to "yank" it back) independently of the default OS X Command-X and Command-V cut and paste commands. This means that if you need to have two pieces of information quickly accessible, you can have both of them ready to paste with just a couple of keystrokes.

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