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 12:37:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-30C34F.12372225092015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1812.1443195492.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.1812.1443195492.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) wrote:
> Barry Margolin writes:
>
> > Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes:
> >
> >> 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.
>
> No, I think you are wrong. delete-backward-char (bound to
> <backspace>) doesn't put the text in the kill ring. At least not
> by default, try it with emacs -Q
You're right, it was due to some customization, I had <backspace> bound
to a different function that sets killflag if there's a region.
Once I reverted the binding to normal, I also had to turn on
delete-selection-mode to make it delete the region rather than a single
character.
I use Carbon Emacs 22 on OS X, I'm not sure how I would start it with
options like -Q.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-25 16:37 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
[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 [this message]
2015-09-25 15:15 ` Yuri Khan
2015-09-26 2:07 ` Emanuel Berg
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