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From: Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: save buffer contents without moving mark/point?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:02:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4pp8qe0w.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.130.1172517269.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Thomas L Roche <tlroche@us.ibm.com> writes:

> I'm looking for a {function, key binding} with semantics like
> windows C-a, i.e. that will select the current contents of the
> buffer (preferably respecting narrowing) and save it to the kill
> ring without killing (like copy-region-as-kill).

C-x h ;; Marks whole buffer
M-w   ;; Save region to kill ring

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-27  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200702261706.l1QH6WiM031013@e36.co.us.ibm.com>
2007-02-26 19:14 ` save buffer contents without moving mark/point? Thomas L Roche
2007-02-26 19:53   ` Tom Rauchenwald
     [not found] ` <mailman.130.1172517269.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-26 19:43   ` james
2007-02-26 23:41   ` B. T. Raven
2007-02-27  7:02   ` Mathias Dahl [this message]

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