Re: copy-region-as-kill => variable

[Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>]

+ Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>:

|   Is there a function that would operate as copy-region-as-kill,
| but instead of copying to kill-ring would copy the data to a variable,
| such as one created by 'defvar?

Such a beast is not terribly hard to write:

(defun copy-region-to-variable (start end variable)
  (interactive "r\nvCopy region to variable: ")
  (set variable (buffer-substring start end)))

Note that this copies text properties as well.
You may find this confusing.  Or perhaps not.

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