From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: delete-region - is their a way to get the deleted text? Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:25:23 +0800 Message-ID: <874nd2bbwc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87wqpys8d8.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371115543 32529 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2013 09:25:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:25:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 13 11:25:42 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Un3mm-0002zI-5n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:25:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55662 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Un3ml-0001yS-Ov for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:25:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57389) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Un3mZ-0001wu-HB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:25:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Un3mV-0003bP-Tm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:25:27 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59508) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Un3mV-0003bA-NK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Un3mR-0002jm-PE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:25:19 +0200 Original-Received: from 114.252.246.190 ([114.252.246.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:25:19 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 114.252.246.190 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:25:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.252.246.190 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QFSRb+6IzRbK73b2RPqvc2JbRlY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91492 Archived-At: Thorsten Jolitz writes: > Hi List, > > I found a function that would be useful for me as is - if only I would > have access to the region deleted with 'delete-region' inside that > function. > > ,------------------------------------------------------------------ > | (delete-region START END) > | Delete the text between START and END. > | This command deletes buffer text without modifying the kill ring. > `------------------------------------------------------------------ > > If its not in the kill ring - is there any other way to get the text > that deleted, or is it simply gone and lost? `delete-and-extract-region'!