Hi Kyle On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 2:58 AM Kyle Meyer <k...@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
