kill

In a text editor, cuts to the end of the current line, or cuts a newline if there is only whitespace between the selection and end of line. Multiple consective kills are appended. In a pasteboard editor, cuts the current selection.

See also cut.

The content of an editor can be changed by the system in response to other method calls, and such changes do not go through this method; use on-delete in text% or on-delete in pasteboard% to monitor content deletions changes.

• (send a-text kill time start end) -> void
      time : exact integer
      start : exact non-negative integer
      end : exact non-negative integer

  Cuts the text in the given region.

  See Cut and Paste for a discussion of the time argument. If time is outside the platform-specific range of times, an exn:application:mismatch exception is raised.

  
  

• (send a-text kill time) -> void
      time = 0 : exact integer

  See Cut and Paste for a discussion of the time argument. If time is outside the platform-specific range of times, an exn:application:mismatch exception is raised.