Re: delete-region - is their a way to get the deleted text?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1597.1371148312.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:

> Am 13.06.2013 um 15:33 schrieb Barry Margolin:
> 
> > Why is that needed?
> 
> Because delete-region is an interactive command. I naturally assumed that a 
> substitute should a few features of the original command. Or it wouldn't be a 
> substitute.

He didn't ask for a complete substitute, just something that provides 
access to the deleted region for the caller.

> 
> > The OP said that he needed access to the deleted region within the function 
> > that calls it.
> 
> That's not true. Or my English is too bad.

He wrote "if only I would have access to the region deleted with 
'delete-region' inside that function."

It's confusing because there's no antecedent to "that function". But the 
only possibility that makes sense to me is "the function that calls 
delete-region".

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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