From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: delete-region - is their a way to get the deleted text? Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:49:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87wqpys8d8.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371113411 10350 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2013 08:50:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:50:11 +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 10:50:11 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 1Un3EL-0001UF-Do for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:50:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55104 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Un3EK-0008P6-VI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48057) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Un3EA-0008P1-Kw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:49:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Un3E8-00060Y-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Un3E8-00060J-GX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Un3E7-0001JZ-5A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:49:51 +0200 Original-Received: from g231108135.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.108.135]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:49:51 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231108135.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:49:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231108135.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lkIzTly5ZXaT6QHcHk8zaMmfIM8= 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:91489 Archived-At: Hi List, 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? -- cheers, Thorsten