From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:47:40 -0400 Message-ID: <877fnefqlf.fsf@yale.edu> References: <8272bab2-aa15-479f-b838-0b60fb11c5bb@googlegroups.com> <7a656389-cff3-4afd-a237-1142a1ba7daa@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443196114 31704 80.91.229.3 (25 Sep 2015 15:48:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:48:34 +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 17:48:25 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 1ZfVEP-0006ow-Dc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:48:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48090 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfVEO-00072x-Vx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48941) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfVE9-00071q-Ni for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfVE6-0001NZ-Ga for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41597) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfVE6-0001Ma-AE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:47:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfVE3-0006In-HE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:47:55 +0200 Original-Received: from 130.132.236.141 ([130.132.236.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:47:55 +0200 Original-Received: from jorge.alfaro-murillo by 130.132.236.141 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:47:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 49 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.132.236.141 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2FpSKwYgg9ErJYPzJFs0hd5A2V8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:107346 Archived-At: Jim Newton writes: > Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes: > >> Doesn't selecting the text and using do exactly >> that? By the way, as Tomás suggested, I think that you are >> better off always killing the region and then using M-y. You >> never know if you will actually change your mind and use the >> text you deleted. For an improved version of M-y, try: >> >> https://github.com/browse-kill-ring/browse-kill-ring > > The problem, as I described above is that every time I press > C-w, then to get back the text I want to yank, I must press M-y > N+1 times. > > Here is the sequence. I copy the region I want to insert with > M-w, then I start reading through the text in the buffer, every > time I encounter a string I want to replace with C-y, I have to > first delete what's there. So I select the first using M-space a > few times, and press C-w C-y M-y, then continue to the text I > want to remove and replace (maybe the same string again, or > maybe one slightly different), and press M-space (a few times), > then C-w C-y M-y M-y, next time I have to press C-w C-y M-y M-y > M-y The 20th time I need to press C-w C-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y > M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y > > That's why the M-y suggestion does not work. I see now what you mean. I think registers are better for that case. Select the region that you will yank a lot of times, do: C-x r s 1 That is copy-to-register, assigning a key, 1 in this example, to the text. Then every time that you want to insert the text do insert-register: C-x r i 1 Then you can continue using C-w as much as you want. If you will be yanking that text a lot, to save keystrokes record a macro: F3 C-x r i 1 F4, and then use F4 from then on. -- Jorge.