From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:21:34 -0400 [thread overview]
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In article <mailman.1805.1443189138.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) wrote:
> 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 <backspace> do exactly that?
I just tried it, and C-y recovered the deleted text. So it does put it
on the kill-ring.
> 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.
I've used delete-region when I've accidentally run a command in a shell
buffer that spews out thousands of lines of output. I know I'm not going
to want it back.
And back in the days of more limited memory, I would also turn off undo,
so that the deleted region wouldn't be saved in the undo-history.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-25 15:21 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
[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 [this message]
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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