Re: Saving the selection before killing

[Jan Djärv]

Richard Stallman skrev:
>     > If that is true, doesn't it impact Emacs a lot?  If you go to the
>     > Emacs window and type C-y, do you nearly always get a selection from
>     > some other program?
>
>     Yes, if I did something in another program before C-y.  But that is a 
> feature,
>     I expect that.  But maybe 99% of my C-y is from the kill ring Emacs 
> maintains
>     itself, that is a kill was made and Emacs has the selection.
>
> I asked if C-y nearly always gets you a selection from another
> program, and your answer is, in effect, "It does that SOME of the
> time."  In effect that doesn't really answer.

Ok, I misunderstood the question.  I though it was, "Does C-y in Emacs, just 
after you done something in another program, get the selection from that 
program?".  The answer to that question is yes.

        Jan D.