From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Reich=F6r?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Kill ring and backward-kill-word Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:47:07 +0100 Organization: UTA Telekom AG (Customer) Message-ID: <87fyoy82lw.fsf@utanet.at> References: <1134408189.686637.151960@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134425949 1547 80.91.229.2 (12 Dec 2005 22:19:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:19:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 12 23:19:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Elvyp-00063M-Vj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:17:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ElvzL-0001ZD-Jg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:17:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.volia.net!newsfeed.utanet.at!newsspool.utanet.at!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: linzu2-210-125.utaonline.at Original-X-Trace: newsreader1.utanet.at 1134420454 15389 212.152.210.125 (12 Dec 2005 20:47:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@uta.at Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Dec 2005 20:47:34 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6G5cI7x3MSRrLsT1Otc+cKOl/I8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:136295 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31911 Archived-At: Hi Shug! > could someone please tell me how to turn off adding text to the kill > ring when i am using M-x backward-kill-word? it is a very annoying > "feature". Just use C-g to interrupt the appending. Assuming backward-kill-word on M-DEL: M-DEL M-DEL C-g M-DEL Now only the latest deleted word is on the kill ring. Stefan.