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Re: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:53:02 -0400 |
> From: Will <schimpanski@gmx.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:14:01 +0200
>
> I'd like to copy text from external applications (e.g. web browser) to
> an Emacs buffer. Often before I paste the text into an Emacs buffer I'd
> like to delete text in the this buffer _without_ it being copied to the
> kill-ring, because then the text from the external application gets lost.
>
> => How do I switch off that hightlighted text is copied automatially
> into the kill-ring?
> => How do I delete a region without it getting copied into the
> kill-ring, e.g. by highlighting the text and pressing <delete>?
Try "M-x delete-selection-mode RET". Is this what you want?