From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: pushing and popping the mark Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 23:47:28 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87wq0h1kzz.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431207921 21329 80.91.229.3 (9 May 2015 21:45:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 21:45:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 23:45:21 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 1YrCYg-0006cx-7U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 23:45:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60552 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrCYf-0000IN-IN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 17:45:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:uhvcJNMuxqgQYm4QFKUAt+Q8zfM= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212053 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:104337 Archived-At: Sam Halliday writes: > 1. go to "new text", kill some relevant text 2. > go to "existing text", yank 3. repeat The best way to do this is to move (once), kill everything, move again (once), and yank everything. So use the kill *ring*. When you yank, if it isn't what you like, do (immediately after the yank) `M-y' for `yank-pop'. You might also like: (defun yank-pop-back (&optional arg) (interactive "*p") (yank-pop (if arg (* arg -1) -1)) ) If you rely on it, bind it to some equally close and fast key. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573