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Re: C-M-w and active region
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Dieter Wilhelm |
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Re: C-M-w and active region |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:41:46 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> writes:
> Dieter Wilhelm wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Do you know a good reason why C-M-w could not append an already active
>> region to the kill-buffer instead of typing C-M-w and M-w?
>
> It probably could, but it would be difficult to type. Consider:-
Why, when I want to append a kill I have to type C-M-w anyway!
> C-w kill-region ie cut
> M-w kill-ring-save - ie save the region
> C-M-w append-next-kill
>
> If it meant "append this kill" then someone could type C-w mis-hitting
> M and not notice until they needed to do the paste.
I think it wouldn't be dangerous: 1st it only would do this when a
region is active and 2nd C-M-w would have to detect whether the latest
kill was either C-w or M-w. So C-M-w would be in effect
kill-ring-save-and-append-or-kill-region-and-append when the region is
active and remain append-next-kill otherwise.
>
>> This applies also to C-w: I'd like to append some kill to the first
>> entry of the kill-ring, why shouldn't C-M-w be able to do this by
>> itself when it detects an active region and a previous C-w? I think
>> the current convention is less efficient: First to type C-M-w, then
>> activating a region and then the need for killing it.
>
> Try changing it and see what happens. It may work better for you. I
> hardly ever use C-M-w.
Neither do I, but when there are facilities I'm looking for ways to
make them--hopefully--as efficient as possible.
Thank you for your comment.
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany