Delete

Keys

SHIFT+DEL, SHIFT+NUM–

Menu

Edit menu, Cut command

Delete

Deletes the single character at the cursor, excluding line breaks. It does not copy the deleted character onto the clipboard. Note that the Delete function can delete more than one character, depending on the current selection mode.

Arg Delete (ALT+A SHIFT+DEL)

Deletes from the cursor to the end of the line. The deleted text is copied onto the clipboard. In stream selection mode, the deletion includes the line break and joins the current line to the next line.

Arg boxarg | linearg | streamarg Delete (ALT+A boxarg | linearg | streamarg SHIFT+DEL)

Deletes the selected text. The text is copied on to the clipboard.

Meta ... Delete (F9 ... SHIFT+DEL)

As above but discards the deleted text. The contents of the clipboard are not changed.

Returns

Delete always returns true.