Re: How to clear a register

[Harry Putnam]

Asgeir <asgeir@free.fr> writes:

> Do you really need to clear a register ?
> You can just override your register saving another information in it.
> But effectively, (info "(emacs)registers") does not show any function to
> clear a register. It must be useless, therefore.

Yeah... I see it is useless... I did mention that I saw no way to
overwrite a register, but of course there is.

Harry wrote:
>> I see how (using a prefix arg) I can delete a region from the source
>> when its sent to a register but no way to mess with what is inside a
>> register.  Don't even see a way to overwrite a register.

I'd gotten hungup on using C-x <left|right>  which of course.. appends
to a register... not realizing I could use C-x r s to overwrite a
register.

Sorry for the line noise.