From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: No copy when killing Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:01:06 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <39fbd280-441d-498e-9a53-ce3188f31398@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <0cd27ea8-87cb-4891-8cce-8887be2aa949@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213454451 26089 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2008 14:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:40:51 +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 Jun 14 16:41:32 2008 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 1K7Wwd-0004Bj-56 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:41:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49672 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7Wvn-0000k5-5e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:40:39 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a9g2000prl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1213452066 28092 127.0.0.1 (14 Jun 2008 14:01:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:01:06 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a9g2000prl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159467 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:54821 Archived-At: Here's a kill-word command that does not push text into kill-ring. (defun my-kill-word (arg) "Kill characters forward until encountering the end of a word. With argument, do this that many times. Do not push killed text to kill-ring" (interactive "p") (delete-region (point) (progn (forward-word arg) (point)))) it's basically copy-paste of the same code of kill-word, execpt that kill-region is replaced by delete-region. here's a simple kill-line that doesn't push to kill-ring. (defun delete-point-to-line-end () "Delete text from current position to end of line char." (interactive) (delete-region (point) (save-excursion (move-end-of-line 1) (point)) )) > Thanks again so much :) you are very welcome. :) I got lots help here too. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84 On Jun 14, 3:18 am, rock69 wrote: > Thank youXahfor the detailed explanation. I would indeed like to see > the code if it's not too much trouble. Although, as a matter of fact, > I most likely am going to follow your suggestion, and use another > register when I'm in one of the situations I mentioned. > > Thanks again so much :)