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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete-region - is their a way to get the deleted text?
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:51:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-7F857C.14511513062013@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1597.1371148312.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

In article <mailman.1597.1371148312.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:

> Am 13.06.2013 um 15:33 schrieb Barry Margolin:
> 
> > Why is that needed?
> 
> Because delete-region is an interactive command. I naturally assumed that a 
> substitute should a few features of the original command. Or it wouldn't be a 
> substitute.

He didn't ask for a complete substitute, just something that provides 
access to the deleted region for the caller.

> 
> > The OP said that he needed access to the deleted region within the function 
> > that calls it.
> 
> That's not true. Or my English is too bad.

He wrote "if only I would have access to the region deleted with 
'delete-region' inside that function."

It's confusing because there's no antecedent to "that function". But the 
only possibility that makes sense to me is "the function that calls 
delete-region".

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-13 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-13  8:49 delete-region - is their a way to get the deleted text? Thorsten Jolitz
2013-06-13  8:56 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-13  9:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-06-13 10:00   ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-13 10:20     ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-06-13 10:23     ` Eric Abrahamsen
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1532.1371117614.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-13 13:33     ` Barry Margolin
2013-06-13 18:31       ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1597.1371148312.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-13 18:51         ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2013-06-13 19:41           ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]           ` <mailman.1599.1371152513.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-13 21:08             ` Barry Margolin
2013-06-13 23:00               ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-14  8:15                 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-06-14  8:37                   ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-13 16:16 ` David Engster
2013-06-14  8:20   ` Thorsten Jolitz
     [not found] <mailman.1524.1371113397.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-13 15:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-14  8:18   ` Thorsten Jolitz

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