`i' in the manual takes you to node Earlier Kills, which occurs much later than the explanation of killing vs deleting. But the notion of a kill ring or at least some sort of clipboard is central to the notion of killing, as opposed to deleting.
Node Killing should also mention that "kill" is similar to what is sometimes called "cut". It's important that people understand what killing text is all about in this node - and that means 1) introducing the notion of saving the killed text somewhere and 2) the link to their understanding of "cut" in other apps. In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of 2006-07-19 on BOS-CTHEWLAP2 X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: cp1252 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Info Minor modes in effect: display-time-mode: t recentf-mode: t icomplete-mode: t tool-bar-pop-up-mode: t icicle-mode: t minibuffer-indicate-depth-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t show-paren-mode: t encoded-kbd-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-h i C-h k i q <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> i k i l l <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> k i l l i n g <return> i C-g C-g C-g C-g M-n <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> i C-g C-g i d e l e t e <return> u u l <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <re port-emacs-bug> Recent messages: Loading c:/drews-lisp-20/CONTRIB/eldoc.el (source)...done Buffer `*scratch*' is in Lisp Interaction mode. For info on the mode: `C-h m'. For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Buffer `drews-lisp-20' is in Dired by name mode. For info on the mode: `h'. Loading cl-seq...done Composing main Info directory...done Found `killing buffers' in Concept Index. (7 total; use `,' for next) Quit [6 times] Found `DELETE' in Key Index. (36 total; use `,' for next) Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
