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16.2 Edit and rearrange text ¶

• Hear exactly what I selected: establish point and mark and inspect the newline boundary before an operation.
• Copy text into another document: keep the source intact and check the insertion and kill-ring contents at the destination.
• Move a paragraph: cut a checked passage and verify both its old and new positions, including blank lines.
• Paste something I copied earlier: distinguish the kill-ring chooser from replacing the last yank with an earlier entry.
• Undo and listen between corrections: use the right buffer’s undo history without accidentally redoing earlier undos.
• Copy between Emacs and another application: test the clipboard boundary without assuming that Windows, WSL and terminal sessions work identically.
• Replace only the occurrences I choose: limit the operation to a checked region and review each proposed change before saving.