"Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
From: Will <schimpanski@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:14:01 +0200
I'd like to copy text from external applications (e.g. web browser) to
an Emacs buffer. Often before I paste the text into an Emacs buffer I'd
like to delete text in the this buffer _without_ it being copied to the
kill-ring, because then the text from the external application gets lost.
=> How do I switch off that hightlighted text is copied automatially
into the kill-ring?
=> How do I delete a region without it getting copied into the
kill-ring, e.g. by highlighting the text and pressing <delete>?
Try "M-x delete-selection-mode RET". Is this what you want?
I bump into the OP's problem every once in a while, but I don't like
delete-selection-mode for some reason, so I use the patch below instead.
What it does is that when you kill text, before doing the kill (which will
replace the current X-selection with the killed text), we save the current
selection on the kill-ring (only if it doesn't come from us, of course
since otherwise it's already in the kill-ring). So I can simply do my kill
and then C-y (which re-inserts what I just killed) and M-y (which replaces
the text with the previous X-selection).
This feature is pretty unnoticeable, so I'm tempted to install it just like
that, but maybe people want yet-another-config-var to control it?
Stefan
--- orig/lisp/simple.el
+++ mod/lisp/simple.el
@@ -2479,6 +2536,20 @@
argument is not used by `insert-for-yank'. However, since Lisp code
may access and use elements from the kill ring directly, the STRING
argument should still be a \"useful\" string for such uses."
+ ;; To better pretend that X-selection = head-of-kill-ring, we copy other
+ ;; application's X-selection to the kill-ring. This comes in handy when
+ ;; you do something like:
+ ;; - copy a piece of text in your web-browser.
+ ;; - have to do some editing (including killing) before you can yank
+ ;; that text.
+ ;; Note: this piece of code inspired from current-kill.
+ (let ((paste (and interprogram-paste-function
+ (funcall interprogram-paste-function))))
+ (when paste
+ (let ((interprogram-cut-function nil)
+ (interprogram-paste-function nil))
+ (kill-new paste))))
+ ;; The actual kill-new functionality.
(if (> (length string) 0)
(if yank-handler
(put-text-property 0 (length string)