From: weber <hugows@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:29:56 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184243396.738117.77850@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5fmk5pF3bo3fbU1@mid.individual.net>
On 12 jul, 09:14, Will <schimpan...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to copy text from external applications (e.g. web browser) to
> an Emacs buffer. Often before I paste the text into an Emacs buffer I'd
> like to delete text in the this buffer _without_ it being copied to the
> kill-ring, because then the text from the external application gets lost.
>
> => How do I switch off that hightlighted text is copied automatially
> into the kill-ring?
> => How do I delete a region without it getting copied into the
> kill-ring, e.g. by highlighting the text and pressing <delete>?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Will
>
> PS: I am working with
> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
> with MS Windows XP.
There is another command, delete-region, that doesn't copy to the kill
ring.
You could bind it to delete like this:
(define-key global-map (kbd "<delete>") 'delete-region)
HTH,
weber
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-12 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-12 12:14 Selection not to be copied into kill-ring Will
2007-07-12 12:29 ` weber [this message]
2007-07-12 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-12 15:21 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.3386.1184244752.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-12 20:31 ` Saving the selection before killing (was: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring) Stefan Monnier
2007-07-12 20:45 ` Saving the selection before killing David Kastrup
2007-07-12 20:45 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-13 7:23 ` Will
2007-07-13 18:38 ` Saving the selection before killing (was: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring) Richard Stallman
2007-07-13 19:11 ` Saving the selection before killing Stefan Monnier
2007-07-14 18:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-15 22:54 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-17 3:34 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-17 8:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 4:41 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-18 5:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 9:28 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-18 20:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-18 21:05 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 9:24 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-18 9:21 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-18 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-19 7:35 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-19 17:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-20 6:27 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-20 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-20 16:50 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-21 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-21 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-21 4:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-21 9:22 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-19 4:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-19 7:44 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-19 21:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-20 6:33 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-21 4:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-21 9:28 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-22 1:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-22 7:55 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-22 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-22 20:32 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-12 20:31 ` Saving the selection before killing (was: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring) Stefan Monnier
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