From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete-region - is their a way to get the deleted text?
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:20:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v2dw1bm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wqpyc7fd.fsf@arcor.de
David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
> Thorsten Jolitz writes:
>> 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?
>
> Well, there's always the super-hacky way:
>
> (require 'cl)
>
> (defadvice your-function-of-interest
> (around replace-delete-with-kill activate)
> "Replace `delete-region' with `kill-region'."
> (flet ((delete-region (x y)
> (kill-region x y)))
> ad-do-it))
>
> And then just yank...
Not that I understand all of it, but it seems to do exactly what I want.
Thanks!
--
cheers,
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-14 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-13 8:49 delete-region - is their a way to get the deleted text? Thorsten Jolitz
2013-06-13 8:56 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-13 9:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-06-13 10:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-13 10:20 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-06-13 10:23 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.1532.1371117614.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-13 13:33 ` Barry Margolin
2013-06-13 18:31 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1597.1371148312.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-13 18:51 ` Barry Margolin
2013-06-13 19:41 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1599.1371152513.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-13 21:08 ` Barry Margolin
2013-06-13 23:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-14 8:15 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-06-14 8:37 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-13 16:16 ` David Engster
2013-06-14 8:20 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
[not found] <mailman.1524.1371113397.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-13 15:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-14 8:18 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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