From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Shug Boabby" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Kill ring and backward-kill-word Date: 13 Dec 2005 10:21:50 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1134498109.918119.274470@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1134408189.686637.151960@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87fyoy82lw.fsf@utanet.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134603318 7091 80.91.229.2 (14 Dec 2005 23:35:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:35:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 15 00:35:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Emg8G-00006o-89 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:34:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Emg8q-0005rC-KY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:34:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.41.24.222 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1134498115 16854 127.0.0.1 (13 Dec 2005 18:21:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:21:55 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87fyoy82lw.fsf@utanet.at> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/416.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/416.13,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.41.24.222; posting-account=jQz-EQ0AAABiniXWq8YyRVQ60t_LIYwt Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:136311 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31937 Archived-At: hi stefan, the point is that i don't want *any* of the deleted words to enter into the kill ring. i prefer the kill ring to function the same way as the clipboard and c&p in all other apps i use... which means only text that i explicitly M-w (or M-c) gets added to the kill ring/clipboard. it is my belief that the situation when someone would want to delete a word and then paste it elsewhere is a *lot* less frequent than when you have some text in the clipboard/killring, delete a word and then paste/yank.