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Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring |
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Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:21:34 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.1805.1443189138.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) wrote:
> Jim Newton writes:
>
> > is there a way or an idiom for killing a region without changing
> > the kill ring. I often want to cut several different regions by
> > highlighting them, but then insert a particular thing with C-Y.
> > If I use C-W to kill the region C-Y will yank back the string I
> > just killed rather than the one I want.
> >
> > It would be nice to have a version of C-W which does not effect
> > the kill-ring.
>
> Doesn't selecting the text and using <backspace> do exactly that?
I just tried it, and C-y recovered the deleted text. So it does put it
on the kill-ring.
> By the way, as Tomás suggested, I think that you are better off
> always killing the region and then using M-y. You never know if
> you will actually change your mind and use the text you deleted.
I've used delete-region when I've accidentally run a command in a shell
buffer that spews out thousands of lines of output. I know I'm not going
to want it back.
And back in the days of more limited memory, I would also turn off undo,
so that the deleted region wouldn't be saved in the undo-history.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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