From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to clear a register
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:56:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wscpeu9i.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87prii4880.fsf@free.fr
Asgeir <asgeir@free.fr> writes:
> Do you really need to clear a register ?
> You can just override your register saving another information in it.
> But effectively, (info "(emacs)registers") does not show any function to
> clear a register. It must be useless, therefore.
Yeah... I see it is useless... I did mention that I saw no way to
overwrite a register, but of course there is.
Harry wrote:
>> I see how (using a prefix arg) I can delete a region from the source
>> when its sent to a register but no way to mess with what is inside a
>> register. Don't even see a way to overwrite a register.
I'd gotten hungup on using C-x <left|right> which of course.. appends
to a register... not realizing I could use C-x r s to overwrite a
register.
Sorry for the line noise.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-20 17:56 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <mailman.5315.1232429190.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-20 9:50 ` How to clear a register Asgeir
2009-01-20 17:56 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.5379.1232474199.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-21 1:18 ` Xah Lee
2009-01-20 5:26 Harry P
2009-01-20 11:34 ` Bastien
2009-01-20 17:57 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.5336.1232451298.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-20 16:59 ` Asgeir
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