From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 08:30:09 -0500 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: References: <8272bab2-aa15-479f-b838-0b60fb11c5bb@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443188137 23981 80.91.229.3 (25 Sep 2015 13:35:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:35:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 15:35:27 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfT9n-0002Aj-Rc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:35:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40115 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfT9n-00082f-59 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:35:23 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news4 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pddda23220933ef2c5f1a3397ce9827ffe3c7f8c224e40089.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-Received-Bytes: 1633 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2432428112 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:215054 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107338 Archived-At: On 9/25/2015 7:49 AM, Jim Newton wrote: > >> >> delete-region is advertised to do that, but a quick test >> in my case seems to do the same as kill. I haven't the time >> now to debug that, might just be an idiosyncracy of my >> less-than-organized .emacs >> > > After a quick test, it seems delete-region does what I want. It doesn't seem to have a standard bind key. > It would slow things down to have one, and waste a keychord. In order to invoke delete-region you first need to define a region. Once that's done, either the delete or backspace key will delete it. With a split space keyboard the backspace key (left of split) is more accessible than any key combo whatever. Ed