From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Kill ring and backward-kill-word Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:48:47 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85mzj4mx4g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <1134408189.686637.151960@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87fyoy82lw.fsf@utanet.at> <1134498109.918119.274470@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134603439 7394 80.91.229.2 (14 Dec 2005 23:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 15 00:37:19 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Emg9H-0000WZ-AC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:35:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Emg9Z-000611-1M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:35:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.astraweb.com!newsrouter-eu.astraweb.com!proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LEiXgSVT95xalcHsNOys3I1vgjM= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Dec 2005 23:48:21 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2991832e.newsread4.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=fcLMEcJdagAbkXRh2MA`7O:ejgIfPPldDjW\KbG]kaMHFYk:AnJB[CM4Mg5; gFlh8N1_LiI6ENVaM3>5MOK` 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:31938 Archived-At: "Shug Boabby" 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