From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "james" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: save buffer contents without moving mark/point? Date: 26 Feb 2007 11:43:56 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1172519036.643530.210210@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> References: <200702261706.l1QH6WiM031013@e36.co.us.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172522439 1446 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2007 20:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:40:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 26 21:40:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HLme8-0005RL-89 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:40:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLme7-0001LK-T9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.175.225.24 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1172519044 1034 127.0.0.1 (26 Feb 2007 19:44:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:44:04 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com; posting-host=205.175.225.24; posting-account=QasW5A0AAAAxx4roVdpL6V55nt6Y9qFG Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145888 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41495 Archived-At: On Feb 26, 1:14 pm, Thomas L Roche wrote: > I'm looking for a {function, key binding} with semantics like windows > C-a, i.e. that will select the current contents of the buffer > (preferably respecting narrowing) and save it to the kill ring without > killing (like copy-region-as-kill). (defun my-select-all () (interactive) (copy-region-as-kill (point-min) (point-max)))