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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Kill ring and backward-kill-word
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:48:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85mzj4mx4g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1134498109.918119.274470@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

"Shug Boabby" <Shug.Boabby@gmail.com> writes:

> hi stefan, the point is that i don't want *any* of the deleted words
> to enter into the kill ring. i prefer the kill ring to function the
> same way as the clipboard and c&p in all other apps i use... which
> means only text that i explicitly M-w (or M-c) gets added to the
> kill ring/clipboard.
>
> it is my belief that the situation when someone would want to delete
> a word and then paste it elsewhere is a *lot* less frequent than
> when you have some text in the clipboard/killring, delete a word and
> then paste/yank.

Well, you know M-y don't you?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-13 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-12 17:23 Kill ring and backward-kill-word Shug Boabby
2005-12-12 20:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2005-12-12 20:25   ` Shug Boabby
2005-12-12 20:47 ` Stefan Reichör
2005-12-13 18:21   ` Shug Boabby
2005-12-13 22:48     ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-12-14  3:02       ` Shug Boabby
2005-12-15  0:35         ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-15 20:49         ` Stefan Reichör
2005-12-16 13:54           ` Shug Boabby
2005-12-17 11:10         ` don provan

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