From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to clear a register Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:56:25 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87wscpeu9i.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87prii4880.fsf@free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232474230 18187 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2009 17:57:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:57:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 20 18:58:23 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LPKrg-00016H-Dg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:58:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39583 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LPKqP-0001qC-2c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:56:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LPKq5-0001q7-AM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:56:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LPKq3-0001pv-SD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:56:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54160 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LPKq3-0001ps-O9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:56:35 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51684 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LPKq3-0007JR-4b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:56:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LPKq2-0008Pj-VS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:56:34 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:56:34 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:56:34 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Zq7huATLZtVJtIQGT4X6dFYzCeQ= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:61507 Archived-At: Asgeir writes: > Do you really need to clear a register ? > You can just override your register saving another information in it. > But effectively, (info "(emacs)registers") does not show any function to > clear a register. It must be useless, therefore. Yeah... I see it is useless... I did mention that I saw no way to overwrite a register, but of course there is. Harry wrote: >> I see how (using a prefix arg) I can delete a region from the source >> when its sent to a register but no way to mess with what is inside a >> register. Don't even see a way to overwrite a register. I'd gotten hungup on using C-x which of course.. appends to a register... not realizing I could use C-x r s to overwrite a register. Sorry for the line noise.