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CTRL-k: kill the line after the cursor, add to clipboard CTRL-u: kill the line before the cursor, add to clipboard

The more emacsian way of saying that you removed a line segment from a buffer and put it on the clip-board is to say that you yank the line rather than you kill the line.

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Now I'm just confused. I thought that C-k stood for kill, and C-y stood for yank. So you kill the text, which... puts it into the dead buffer? And then yank it from the dead buffer? I've never really understood this.

Or C-y is just yank, where C-k is kill AND yank (so like copy vs cut).

I stand corrected. I just looked at the documentation for C-K and it says:

C-K runs the command kill-visual-line..."

C-Y says:

C-y runs the command yank...

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