C-Backspace behavior

C-Backspace behavior

[Timur Aydin]

Hi,

Here is a scenario that I am running into many times everyday and it has 
gotten sufficiently annoying that I just wanted to find out how others 
are dealing with this.

I have TODO files in a file tree like this:

src
    foo
       TODO
    bar
       TODO
    rap
       TODO

So I open the first TODO file, mark a region, then do C-x C-f and do 
C-Backspace to delete foo and hit enter. In the dired buffer, I select 
the second TODO and yank. But, annoyingly, foo is pasted instead of the 
region that I have marked.

For this particular case, it is easy to just Backspace "foo" and enter 
"bar", but if the directory hierarchy is deeper nested, I just want to 
quickly delete all directories up to a certain point, open the dired 
buffer and navigate to the next directory without loosing the region 
that I have killed.

I don't just want to redefine the C-Backpace key to not kill, so my 
question is, how should I work so that I don't run into this problem?

-- 
Timur

Re: C-Backspace behavior

[Alan Mackenzie]

Timur Aydin <ta@taydin.org> wrote:
> Hi,

> Here is a scenario that I am running into many times everyday and it has 
> gotten sufficiently annoying that I just wanted to find out how others 
> are dealing with this.

> I have TODO files in a file tree like this:

> src
>    foo
>       TODO
>    bar
>       TODO
>    rap
>       TODO

> So I open the first TODO file, mark a region, then do C-x C-f and do 
> C-Backspace to delete foo and hit enter. In the dired buffer, I select 
> the second TODO and yank. But, annoyingly, foo is pasted instead of the 
> region that I have marked.

If I understand you right, at this point M-y might help.

> For this particular case, it is easy to just Backspace "foo" and enter 
> "bar", but if the directory hierarchy is deeper nested, I just want to 
> quickly delete all directories up to a certain point, open the dired 
> buffer and navigate to the next directory without loosing the region 
> that I have killed.

> I don't just want to redefine the C-Backpace key to not kill, so my 
> question is, how should I work so that I don't run into this problem?

All the regions that you kill are placed, successively, on the "kill ring".
C-y yanks the top kill.  M-y, following a C-y, yanks succeeding elements
from the kill ring.  Try it!

> -- 
> Timur

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).