[PLUG] Emacs: save marked lines to new file

[Dale Snell]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:45:50 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> 
>    Just as easy to mark a region (keyboard or pointy device), then press
> ctrl-x w to cut and ctrl-x y to yank it back.
> 

That procedure works fine, except that it marks the buffer as
modified.  That can be fixed with M-~ .  So, being terminally lazy, I
created a macro in my .init.el:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-x w") 'copy-region-as-kill)

I do quite a bit of copy/paste, and this command makes things more
convenient.

--Dale

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