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From: Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>
To: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Cut and paste an entry programmatically
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 09:27:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALn3zoiKXw7TXOqf9GF6ikpmv_OTpt_oSyFKRE9AetPsDjjZ5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfxlky1z.fsf@kyleam.com>

Hi Kyle

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 2:58 AM Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:

> Hmm I don't consider that a bug.  It's documented behavior for kill
> commands to append to the last kill when called successively.
>
> ,----[ C-h f kill-region RET ]
> | [...]
> | Any command that calls this function is a "kill command".
> | If the previous command was also a kill command,
> | the text killed this time appends to the text killed last time
> | to make one entry in the kill ring.
> | [...]
> `----

Although I knew of course that ~C-k C-k~ appends it didn't ring the
bell it should have. And I was not aware of the concept of a "kill
command" which can make my function a "kill command", _depending on
how it is invoked_.

> In addition to what Samuel posted, another way for a lisp caller to
> avoid the append behavior if desired is to let-bind this-command so that
> kill-region's attempt to set it to kill-region doesn't work.  Using your
> example, that'd be
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defun temp ()
>   (let (this-command)
>     (org-cut-subtree))
>   (org-forward-heading-same-level 2)
>   (org-paste-subtree))
> #+end_src

This is what I have been looking for, thank you.

Michael

      reply	other threads:[~2019-06-29  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-16 16:40 Cut and paste an entry programmatically Michael Brand
2019-05-17 10:16 ` Michael Brand
2019-06-27 13:50 ` Fwd: " Michael Brand
2019-06-27 21:57 ` Samuel Wales
2019-06-28 11:07   ` Michael Brand
2019-06-29  0:58     ` Kyle Meyer
2019-06-29  7:27       ` Michael Brand [this message]

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