Re: 2 ways to paste

[tomer]

Thanks for the reply
I will rephrase the question:
Is there an option to save a region to register immediately after it
is marked
(i.e mouse-1 goes up) (maybe mark hook?)
Thanks
Tomer





On Nov 6, 7:06 pm, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 1) i mark region A
> > 2) i copy (alt+w) region B
>
> > now i want the have the possiblity to yank region A and region B each
> > with different command. is it possible?
>
> > in other words, Is it possible to have 2 different indepenable
> > mechanism for
> > 1) copy yank marking block (with mark and set).
> > 2) copy yank block that was copied to clipboard by alt+w.
>
> 1. Xah mentioned using registers.
>
> 2. You also have the secondary selection, which is like a second 
> clipboard:http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SecondarySelection. Very handy and 
> probably
> underused.
>
> 3. All text you kill or copy (`M-w') is available from the `kill-ring'. You 
> can
> yank (paste) any kill-ring item at any time.
>
> In vanilla Emacs, you do that by `C-y M-y M-y M-y'... There are also various
> ways to directly choose which item to paste, instead of cycling to it - see 
> the
> Emacs Wiki. In Icicles, for instance, `C-- C-y' (`icicle-completing-yank') 
> lets
> you use completion to choose the kill(s) to paste.