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Re: C-Backspace behavior
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: C-Backspace behavior |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Apr 2013 15:21:24 +0000 (UTC) |
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tin/1.9.6-20101126 ("Burnside") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE (amd64)) |
Timur Aydin <ta@taydin.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> Here is a scenario that I am running into many times everyday and it has
> gotten sufficiently annoying that I just wanted to find out how others
> are dealing with this.
> I have TODO files in a file tree like this:
> src
> foo
> TODO
> bar
> TODO
> rap
> TODO
> So I open the first TODO file, mark a region, then do C-x C-f and do
> C-Backspace to delete foo and hit enter. In the dired buffer, I select
> the second TODO and yank. But, annoyingly, foo is pasted instead of the
> region that I have marked.
If I understand you right, at this point M-y might help.
> For this particular case, it is easy to just Backspace "foo" and enter
> "bar", but if the directory hierarchy is deeper nested, I just want to
> quickly delete all directories up to a certain point, open the dired
> buffer and navigate to the next directory without loosing the region
> that I have killed.
> I don't just want to redefine the C-Backpace key to not kill, so my
> question is, how should I work so that I don't run into this problem?
All the regions that you kill are placed, successively, on the "kill ring".
C-y yanks the top kill. M-y, following a C-y, yanks succeeding elements
from the kill ring. Try it!
> --
> Timur
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).