Re: Make <delete> save the deleted text into the killing ring

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:31:43 +0100
> From: aitor <aitors2005@gmail.com>
> 
> > Any reason why you think you need that?  Doing so will fill the
> > kill-ring with meaningless single-character entries.  You have 'undo',
> > which can undelete the deleted text, so why do you want to put every
> > single character you delete in the kill-ring?
> 
> I usually select portions of text using shift+arrow keys, and then
> delete them by pressing <delete>.

Then press "C-u <delete>" instead.  That will allow you to control
when the deleted text goes to the kill-ring and when not.  Doing that
by default makes little sense, because <delete> is also used to delete
single characters or very short stretches of text.