From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:47:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fnefqlf.fsf@yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7a656389-cff3-4afd-a237-1142a1ba7daa@googlegroups.com
Jim Newton writes:
> Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes:
>
>> Doesn't selecting the text and using <backspace> do exactly
>> that? By the way, as Tomás suggested, I think that you are
>> better off always killing the region and then using M-y. You
>> never know if you will actually change your mind and use the
>> text you deleted. For an improved version of M-y, try:
>>
>> https://github.com/browse-kill-ring/browse-kill-ring
>
> The problem, as I described above is that every time I press
> C-w, then to get back the text I want to yank, I must press M-y
> N+1 times.
>
> Here is the sequence. I copy the region I want to insert with
> M-w, then I start reading through the text in the buffer, every
> time I encounter a string I want to replace with C-y, I have to
> first delete what's there. So I select the first using M-space a
> few times, and press C-w C-y M-y, then continue to the text I
> want to remove and replace (maybe the same string again, or
> maybe one slightly different), and press M-space (a few times),
> then C-w C-y M-y M-y, next time I have to press C-w C-y M-y M-y
> M-y The 20th time I need to press C-w C-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y
> M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y
>
> That's why the M-y suggestion does not work.
I see now what you mean. I think registers are better for that
case. Select the region that you will yank a lot of times, do:
C-x r s 1 <enter>
That is copy-to-register, assigning a key, 1 in this example, to
the text.
Then every time that you want to insert the text do
insert-register:
C-x r i 1 <enter>
Then you can continue using C-w as much as you want.
If you will be yanking that text a lot, to save keystrokes record
a macro: F3 C-x r i 1 <enter> F4, and then use F4 from then on.
--
Jorge.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-25 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-25 8:32 kill-region without modifying the kill ring Jim Newton
2015-09-25 12:15 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.1800.1443183340.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 12:47 ` Jim Newton
2015-09-25 12:49 ` Jim Newton
2015-09-25 13:30 ` B. T. Raven
2015-09-25 13:36 ` Jim Newton
2015-09-26 17:57 ` B. T. Raven
2015-09-25 13:51 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
[not found] ` <mailman.1805.1443189138.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 14:30 ` Jim Newton
2015-09-25 15:47 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo [this message]
2015-09-26 0:41 ` Robert Thorpe
2015-09-25 16:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-09-26 2:27 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-09-26 4:35 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-09-25 19:13 ` Javier
2015-09-25 15:21 ` Barry Margolin
2015-09-25 15:37 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
[not found] ` <mailman.1812.1443195492.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 16:37 ` Barry Margolin
2015-09-25 15:15 ` Yuri Khan
2015-09-26 2:07 ` Emanuel Berg
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