Deleting lines of text

[StephenUK]

Kinook - unless you've ever tried the Ctrl-Y command you may not realise how nice and simple a command it is. There is no need to block text, or to know what you are going to delete in advance. You simply pan down a page, pressing Ctrl-Y for those sections you don't want to retain.

It's one of those select group of commands that you have to use to appreciate. If it merely deleted a line it would not be so clever. It is the fact that it pans through a document deleting line by line without further key press until you reach a point where you no longer want to delete. It is a very quick way of discarding unwanted elements of text "on the hoof".

It is also clever in that it deletes the line AS DISPLAYED. So, if the window is narrowed so that there is more frequent word wrapping, it deletes those shorter lines one at a time. It is a much more useful command than, for example, one that deletes a whole sentence at a time.