[PLUG] Emacs: save marked lines to new file

[Rogan Creswick]

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Dale Snell <ddsnell at frontier.com> wrote:

> 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)
>

kill-ring-save, which is bound to M-w (by default) does the same thing with
one minor change:

"This command is similar to `copy-region-as-kill', except that it gives
visual feedback indicating the extent of the region being copied."

(I'm also not sure where C-x y is defined for Rich -- C-y performs yank for
me.)

--Rogan


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