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From: "Stefan Reichör" <stefan@xsteve.at>
Subject: Re: Kill ring and backward-kill-word
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:47:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fyoy82lw.fsf@utanet.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1134408189.686637.151960@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

Hi Shug!

> could someone please tell me how to turn off adding text to the kill
> ring when i am using M-x backward-kill-word? it is a very annoying
> "feature".

Just use C-g to interrupt the appending.
Assuming backward-kill-word on M-DEL:

M-DEL M-DEL C-g M-DEL

Now only the latest deleted word is on the kill ring.


Stefan.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-12 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-12 17:23 Kill ring and backward-kill-word Shug Boabby
2005-12-12 20:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2005-12-12 20:25   ` Shug Boabby
2005-12-12 20:47 ` Stefan Reichör [this message]
2005-12-13 18:21   ` Shug Boabby
2005-12-13 22:48     ` David Kastrup
2005-12-14  3:02       ` Shug Boabby
2005-12-15  0:35         ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-15 20:49         ` Stefan Reichör
2005-12-16 13:54           ` Shug Boabby
2005-12-17 11:10         ` don provan

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