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From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:37:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bncqfr1q.fsf@yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: barmar-1233EB.11213425092015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu

Barry Margolin writes:

> Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes: 
> 
>> Jim Newton writes:  
>>   
>> > is there a way or an idiom for killing a region without 
>> > changing  the kill ring. I often want to cut several 
>> > different regions by  highlighting them, but then insert a 
>> > particular thing with C-Y.  If I use C-W to kill the region 
>> > C-Y will yank back the string I  just killed rather than the 
>> > one I want.    It would be nice to have a version of C-W 
>> > which does not effect  the kill-ring.  
>>   
>> Doesn't selecting the text and using <backspace> do exactly 
>> that?  
> 
> I just tried it, and C-y recovered the deleted text. So it does 
> put it  on the kill-ring.

No, I think you are wrong. delete-backward-char (bound to 
<backspace>) doesn't put the text in the kill ring. At least not 
by default, try it with emacs -Q

-- 
Jorge.




  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-25 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-25  8:32 kill-region without modifying the kill ring Jim Newton
2015-09-25 12:15 ` tomas
     [not found] ` <mailman.1800.1443183340.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 12:47   ` Jim Newton
2015-09-25 12:49   ` Jim Newton
2015-09-25 13:30     ` B. T. Raven
2015-09-25 13:36       ` Jim Newton
2015-09-26 17:57         ` B. T. Raven
2015-09-25 13:51 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-09-25 15:15 ` Yuri Khan
     [not found] ` <mailman.1805.1443189138.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 14:30   ` Jim Newton
2015-09-25 15:47     ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-09-26  0:41       ` Robert Thorpe
2015-09-25 16:40     ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-09-26  2:27       ` Suvayu Ali
2015-09-26  4:35         ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-09-25 19:13     ` Javier
2015-09-25 15:21   ` Barry Margolin
2015-09-25 15:37     ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1812.1443195492.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 16:37       ` Barry Margolin
2015-09-26  2:07 ` Emanuel Berg

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