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


From: Thibaut Verron
Subject: Re: Make <delete> save the deleted text into the killing ring
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:18:42 +0100
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On 15/12/2022 10:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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.

One could also have a delete function which saves to the kill ring only when the region is active. This should keep most short deletions out.








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