Re: kill-region without modifying the kill ring

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Jim Newton writes:

> Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo writes:
>
> > Doesn't selecting the text and using <backspace> do exactly 
> > that?  By the way, as Tomás suggested, I think that you are 
> > better off  always killing the region and then using M-y. You 
> > never know if  you will actually change your mind and use the 
> > text you deleted.  For an improved version of M-y, try: 
> >   
> > https://github.com/browse-kill-ring/browse-kill-ring 
>  
> The problem, as I described above is that every time I press 
> C-w, then to get back the text I want to yank, I must press M-y 
> N+1 times. 
>
> Here is the sequence. I copy the region I want to insert with 
> M-w, then I start reading through the text in the buffer, every 
> time I encounter a string I want to replace with C-y, I have to 
> first delete what's there. So I select the first using M-space a 
> few times, and press C-w C-y M-y, then continue to the text I 
> want to remove and replace (maybe the same string again, or 
> maybe one slightly different), and press M-space (a few times), 
> then C-w C-y M-y M-y, next time I have to press C-w C-y M-y M-y 
> M-y The 20th time I need to press C-w C-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y 
> M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y 
>
> That's why the M-y suggestion does not work.

I see now what you mean. I think registers are better for that 
case.  Select the region that you will yank a lot of times, do:

C-x r s 1 <enter> 

That is copy-to-register, assigning a key, 1 in this example, to 
the text. 

Then every time that you want to insert the text do 
insert-register:

C-x r i 1 <enter>

Then you can continue using C-w as much as you want.

If you will be yanking that text a lot, to save keystrokes record 
a macro: F3 C-x r i 1 <enter> F4, and then use F4 from then on.

--
Jorge.