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Re: Removing the last entry from the kill-ring
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Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: |
Re: Removing the last entry from the kill-ring |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:07:41 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Cecil,
> I wrote the following function, to copy the current buffer to a
> temporary buffer:
> (defun dcbl-buffer-to-temp ()
> (interactive)
> (let ((buffer-name (generate-new-buffer-name "tempory-edit")))
> (copy-region-as-kill (point-min) (point-max))
> (switch-to-buffer buffer-name)
> (yank)))
>
> This works OK (I think) except for one problem: there is an entry
> added to the kill-ring. Is there a way to remove this?
Just don't use the kill-ring and its commands for that. I.e. use
e.g. `buffer-substring[-no-properties]' for copying and `insert' for
pasting.
Regards,
Michael.