Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <mailman.1812.1443195492.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) wrote:

> Barry Margolin writes:
> 
> > Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes: 
> > 
> >> Jim Newton writes:  
> >>   
> >> > is there a way or an idiom for killing a region without 
> >> > changing  the kill ring. I often want to cut several 
> >> > different regions by  highlighting them, but then insert a 
> >> > particular thing with C-Y.  If I use C-W to kill the region 
> >> > C-Y will yank back the string I  just killed rather than the 
> >> > one I want.    It would be nice to have a version of C-W 
> >> > which does not effect  the kill-ring.  
> >>   
> >> Doesn't selecting the text and using <backspace> do exactly 
> >> that?  
> > 
> > I just tried it, and C-y recovered the deleted text. So it does 
> > put it  on the kill-ring.
> 
> No, I think you are wrong. delete-backward-char (bound to 
> <backspace>) doesn't put the text in the kill ring. At least not 
> by default, try it with emacs -Q

You're right, it was due to some customization, I had <backspace> bound 
to a different function that sets killflag if there's a region.

Once I reverted the binding to normal, I also had to turn on 
delete-selection-mode to make it delete the region rather than a single 
character.

I use Carbon Emacs 22 on OS X, I'm not sure how I would start it with 
options like -Q.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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