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From: Javier <nospam@nospam.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:13:11 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mu46c7$r3q$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7a656389-cff3-4afd-a237-1142a1ba7daa@googlegroups.com


> But the suggestion to use [delete] instead of C-w is a good one.  I
> didn't know I could delete a region with the delete key, i've used
> C-w since 1988.

I think that feature didn't exist until very recently, and it is
associated with transient-mark-mode.  It must have appeared in emacs
23 when they made transient-mark-mode the default.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-25 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-25  8:32 kill-region without modifying the kill ring Jim Newton
2015-09-25 12:15 ` tomas
     [not found] ` <mailman.1800.1443183340.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 12:47   ` Jim Newton
2015-09-25 12:49   ` Jim Newton
2015-09-25 13:30     ` B. T. Raven
2015-09-25 13:36       ` Jim Newton
2015-09-26 17:57         ` B. T. Raven
2015-09-25 13:51 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
     [not found] ` <mailman.1805.1443189138.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 14:30   ` Jim Newton
2015-09-25 15:47     ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-09-26  0:41       ` Robert Thorpe
2015-09-25 16:40     ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-09-26  2:27       ` Suvayu Ali
2015-09-26  4:35         ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-09-25 19:13     ` Javier [this message]
2015-09-25 15:21   ` Barry Margolin
2015-09-25 15:37     ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1812.1443195492.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 16:37       ` Barry Margolin
2015-09-25 15:15 ` Yuri Khan
2015-09-26  2:07 ` Emanuel Berg

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