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 10:18:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2rpw1ej.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371198020 24741 80.91.229.3 (14 Jun 2013 08:20:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:20:20 +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 10:20:20 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 1UnPF5-0006bT-Mp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:20:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40166 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnPF5-0001xP-8O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnPEs-0001tq-Da for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnPEr-0004g9-1J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54163) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UnPEq-0004eh-Q7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UnPEp-0006Sj-M7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:20:03 +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 10:20:03 +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 10:20:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 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: sha1:6iffERWvNnNFwev84lKl09laOlk= 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:91545 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> ,------------------------------------------------------------------ >> | (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? > - make sure the function is called with undo enabled, then look for the > deleted string in the undo log (that's how delete-and-extract-region > was originally coded, back when I wrote it in Elisp). that sounds reasonably simple > - temporarily advise delete-region so it stashes its result in > some variable. another option I like > - even nastier hacks can be imagined, of course. thanks for the tips! -- cheers, Thorsten