Re: backward-delete-word?

[Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com>]

"Bingham, Jay" <Jay.Bingham@hp.com> writes:

> In similar circumstances I have stored text in a register and
> inserted it into the buffer from the register.

I too have often found registers a welcome relief from the
complexities of the kill ring.  However, there is one oddity about
their implementation that takes some getting used to.  When you insert
the contents of a register (C-x g), point is at the beginning of the
insertion; you have to do C-x C-x to get it to the end, where it would
be after yanking from the kill ring.  Either outcome could be argued
for, but it seems perverse to do these two very similar jobs in
different ways.
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