From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: delete-region - is their a way to get the deleted text? Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:16:38 +0200 Message-ID: <87wqpyc7fd.fsf@arcor.de> References: <87wqpys8d8.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371140235 15582 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2013 16:17:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:17:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 13 18:17:14 2013 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 1UnAD2-0004z4-Tk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:17:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46817 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnAD2-0001hg-F8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:17:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52908) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnACo-0001c6-JL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:16:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnACn-0004rN-E1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:16:58 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37606) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnACn-0004pY-62 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UnACl-0004lc-Fz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:16:55 +0200 Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-063-067.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.63.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:16:55 +0200 Original-Received: from deng by dslc-082-083-063-067.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:16:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslc-082-083-063-067.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TJoCpiSMtaAN7UDtu2hiJtAKQrw= 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:91521 Archived-At: Thorsten Jolitz writes: > I found a function that would be useful for me as is - if only I would > have access to the region deleted with 'delete-region' inside that > function. > > ,------------------------------------------------------------------ > | (delete-region START END) > | Delete the text between START and END. > | This command deletes buffer text without modifying the kill ring. > `------------------------------------------------------------------ > > If its not in the kill ring - is there any other way to get the text > that deleted, or is it simply gone and lost? Well, there's always the super-hacky way: (require 'cl) (defadvice your-function-of-interest (around replace-delete-with-kill activate) "Replace `delete-region' with `kill-region'." (flet ((delete-region (x y) (kill-region x y))) ad-do-it)) And then just yank... -David