From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:37:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87bncqfr1q.fsf@yale.edu> References: <8272bab2-aa15-479f-b838-0b60fb11c5bb@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443195511 21504 80.91.229.3 (25 Sep 2015 15:38:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:38:31 +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 Sep 25 17:38:23 2015 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 1ZfV4o-0001X1-M3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:38:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47988 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfV4o-00076X-3F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfV4Y-00073r-Qi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:38:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfV4V-000649-J7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:38:06 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfV4V-00063y-CW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:38:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfV4T-00013R-5b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:38:01 +0200 Original-Received: from 130.132.236.141 ([130.132.236.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:38:01 +0200 Original-Received: from jorge.alfaro-murillo by 130.132.236.141 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:38:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.132.236.141 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IOf3sfIXp5yZBneuzHKlLLFXYkw= 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:107345 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: > Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes: > >> Jim Newton writes: >> >> > is there a way or an idiom for killing a region without >> > changing the kill ring. I often want to cut several >> > different regions by highlighting them, but then insert a >> > particular thing with C-Y. If I use C-W to kill the region >> > C-Y will yank back the string I just killed rather than the >> > one I want. It would be nice to have a version of C-W >> > which does not effect the kill-ring. >> >> Doesn't selecting the text and using do exactly >> that? > > I just tried it, and C-y recovered the deleted text. So it does > put it on the kill-ring. No, I think you are wrong. delete-backward-char (bound to ) doesn't put the text in the kill ring. At least not by default, try it with emacs -Q -- Jorge.