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From: Peter Jones <mlists@pmade.com>
Subject: Re: Kill text in org mode
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:49:03 -0600
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John <jlr_0@yahoo.com> writes:
>   1. To kill some text from the mark till the begining of
>      a line, I usually type in:
>       - C-SPC to run `set-mark-command', then
>       - C-a to run `beginning-of-line', and then
>       - M-w to run `kill-ring-save'
>
>      But in org-mode `C-a' is bound to `org-beginning-of-line' which
>      quits marking region.  Thus `M-w' can't work anymore.

This doesn't happen for me.  You might want to ensure you have the
latest version.

Also, a faster way to kill from point to the beginning of the line is:

      C-- C-k

That is, Control-minus and then Control-k.

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