From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: delete-region - is their a way to get the deleted text? Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:20:29 +0200 Message-ID: <878v2dw1bm.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87wqpys8d8.fsf@gmail.com> <87wqpyc7fd.fsf@arcor.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371198320 28095 80.91.229.3 (14 Jun 2013 08:25:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:25:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 14 10:25:20 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 1UnPJt-0000zO-LS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:25:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnPJt-0003Mm-8v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50630) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnPJh-0003JL-WF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnPJg-0006ID-O1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51247) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnPJg-0006GA-If for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:25:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UnPJg-0000oA-10 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:25:04 +0200 Original-Received: from e178058056.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.58.56]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:25:04 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178058056.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:25:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178058056.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RHe3ZpDjUHVqsnFDKTrC2pQ08TI= 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:91546 Archived-At: David Engster 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