From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Javier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:13:11 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <8272bab2-aa15-479f-b838-0b60fb11c5bb@googlegroups.com> <7a656389-cff3-4afd-a237-1142a1ba7daa@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443208529 16020 80.91.229.3 (25 Sep 2015 19:15:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:15:29 +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 21:15:29 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 1ZfYSs-0001JM-IN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:15:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50066 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfYSs-0004zB-1N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:15:26 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!nntpspool01.opticnetworks.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: miwrTBUc11pFN9YlsnJ7Hg.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/3.18.6-1-ARCH (x86_64)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:215071 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:107355 Archived-At: > But the suggestion to use [delete] instead of C-w is a good one. I > didn't know I could delete a region with the delete key, i've used > C-w since 1988. I think that feature didn't exist until very recently, and it is associated with transient-mark-mode. It must have appeared in emacs 23 when they made transient-mark-mode the default.