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 09:51:37 -0400 Message-ID: <87twqifvyu.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; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443189178 9401 80.91.229.3 (25 Sep 2015 13:52:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:52:58 +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 15:52:49 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 1ZfTQK-0006hQ-6l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:52:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41145 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfTQJ-0005PS-NC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:52:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfTQ9-0005O7-Ab for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfTQ6-0007mz-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:52:17 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60560) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfTQ5-0007mS-Vx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:52:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfTPy-0006Ei-CA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:52:06 +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 15:52:06 +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 15:52:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 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: sha1:5ramodBfoiyf/xzZwz9NvUp6nfU= 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:107340 Archived-At: 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? By the way, as Tomás suggested, I think that you are better off always killing the region and then using M-y. You never know if you will actually change your mind and use the text you deleted. For an improved version of M-y, try: https://github.com/browse-kill-ring/browse-kill-ring Best, -- Jorge.