From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Newton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 05:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <518c70bc-7e35-44b4-a8c8-0da0be1834e3@googlegroups.com> References: <8272bab2-aa15-479f-b838-0b60fb11c5bb@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443185426 10630 80.91.229.3 (25 Sep 2015 12:50:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:50:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 14:50:26 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfSSC-0003Ey-94 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:50:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37322 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfSSB-0004sT-Kl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 08:50:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.31.174.146 with SMTP id x140mr4430372vke.1.1443185271965; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 05:47:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.142.9 with SMTP id rs9mr19480igb.6.1443185271932; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 05:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!v79no4289171qge.0!news-out.google.com!n2ni11499igy.0!nntp.google.com!kq10no9877017igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.5.55.13; posting-account=p_cn_woAAAAXPGEq7uizWAc60TPLf8y5 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.5.55.13 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:47:51 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:215052 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107336 Archived-At: > > Not an answer to your original request, but with M-y you can > replace the just-yanked text with previous kills, so perhaps > you might achieve the effect you're after by first yanking > with C-y, then with M-y (and with consecutive M-y you can > even "walk back" your kill history). > Yes, sometimes I do it that way. But after using C-w a second time, then to get back the yank, I must use C-y M-y M-y, and after C-w N times I have to C-y M-y N-1 times. Yes its do-able, which made me wonder whether theres a better way.