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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Jim Newton <jimka.issy@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:15:24 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8XAzG3bq53m1pk8J05k=YeZsRWQjoCFLypp3Xo7ks6sHQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8272bab2-aa15-479f-b838-0b60fb11c5bb@googlegroups.com>

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Jim Newton <jimka.issy@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I remember something posted on this very list not long ago. It was
called deleterious-mode.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-08/msg00152.html

(I don’t use it yet, but I do a very similar thing, rebinding all keys
which normally kill to delete instead. When I want something cut, I
cut it explicitly.)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-25 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-25  8:32 kill-region without modifying the kill ring Jim Newton
2015-09-25 12:15 ` tomas
     [not found] ` <mailman.1800.1443183340.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 12:47   ` Jim Newton
2015-09-25 12:49   ` Jim Newton
2015-09-25 13:30     ` B. T. Raven
2015-09-25 13:36       ` Jim Newton
2015-09-26 17:57         ` B. T. Raven
2015-09-25 13:51 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-09-25 15:15 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.1805.1443189138.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 14:30   ` Jim Newton
2015-09-25 15:47     ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-09-26  0:41       ` Robert Thorpe
2015-09-25 16:40     ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-09-26  2:27       ` Suvayu Ali
2015-09-26  4:35         ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-09-25 19:13     ` Javier
2015-09-25 15:21   ` Barry Margolin
2015-09-25 15:37     ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1812.1443195492.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 16:37       ` Barry Margolin
2015-09-26  2:07 ` Emanuel Berg

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