9.3 Operating on the Region

Once you have selected a region you can do a lot of things to the text in the region:

• Kill the text with C-w. For example if you want to kill a paragraph, position the cursor to the beginning of the paragraph and type C-SPC. Then go to the end of the paragraph and type C-w. The entire paragraph will be deleted. You can also select the text with a mouse and type C-w to kill the entire region. See Killing, for more information.
• Save the text in a buffer or a file (see Accumulating Text).
• You can convert the case of the text with C-x C-l or C-x C-u If you type C-x C-u the selected text will become all upper-case. If you type C-x C-l the selected text will become all lower-case.
• Print hardcopy with M-x print-region. See Hardcopy, for more information. This command will print a hardcopy of only the selected text.
• Indent it with C-x <TAB> or C-M-\ See Indentation, for more information.