Re: mark multi regions, kill and yank

[Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Hi 
>
> I am looking for a package that allows me 
>
>     1. to mark several regions,
>
>     2. To kill them
>
>     3. And then later to yank everything.
>

I have heard this called "scatter gather."  I've been using
the following rather trivial code, which isn't fully "scatter
gather" but it does 1-3 above in incremental fashion, that is,
one region at a time rather than all at once.  I realize this
is not quite what you want, however it does allow you to yank
a concatenated set of copied or killed regions.

;;; A couple of append commands for scatter-gather.  Bind to
;;; global keys. Why C-cps and C-cpk? Because it's difficult,
;;; especially in org-mode, to find free keys.

(defun append-kill-to-kill-ring ()
  (interactive)
(append-next-kill)
(kill-region (mark) (point)))

(defun append-save-to-kill-ring ()
  (interactive)
(append-next-kill)
(kill-ring-save (mark) (point)))

(global-set-key "\C-cps" 'append-save-to-kill-ring)
(global-set-key "\C-cpk" 'append-kill-to-kill-ring)

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