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On Nov 12, 4:29=A0am, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > I would just like to know the shortest key sequence that can be
> > used to save the currently-selected region to a file. =A0A bit like C-x=
 i,
> > except in reverse.
>
> M-x wr-r RET
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Stefan "who actually has code that finds this for you"

Some new kind of completion here - whats the hyphen?

  Rusi "who after 20 years emacs usage remains a noob"