From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Removing the last entry from the kill-ring Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:07:41 +0100 Message-ID: <878uuljcpe.fsf@web.de> References: <878uulcdkz.fsf@Equus.Decebal.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389550099 28945 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2014 18:08:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 18:08:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 12 19:08:26 2014 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 1W2PSS-00084u-N0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:08:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2PSS-0004zM-3a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:08:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56039) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2PS8-0004z1-MZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:08:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2PS1-00057h-Co for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:08:04 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55490) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2PS1-00057a-6L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:07:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W2PRw-0007h4-MX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:07:52 +0100 Original-Received: from dslb-092-074-172-099.pools.arcor-ip.net ([92.74.172.99]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:07:52 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by dslb-092-074-172-099.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:07:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-092-074-172-099.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FA+uXRHEyY9nP0CsLnY5J9ehwVI= 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:95362 Archived-At: Hi Cecil, > I wrote the following function, to copy the current buffer to a > temporary buffer: > (defun dcbl-buffer-to-temp () > (interactive) > (let ((buffer-name (generate-new-buffer-name "tempory-edit"))) > (copy-region-as-kill (point-min) (point-max)) > (switch-to-buffer buffer-name) > (yank))) > > This works OK (I think) except for one problem: there is an entry > added to the kill-ring. Is there a way to remove this? Just don't use the kill-ring and its commands for that. I.e. use e.g. `buffer-substring[-no-properties]' for copying and `insert' for pasting. Regards, Michael.