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From: dpaulso@RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL (Dave Paulson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Copy region function for GNU wanted.
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Date: 10 Feb 89 14:06:28 GMT
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>Does anyone have a macro for Gnu emacs that will allow me to copy a region
>without modifying the source buffer by first killing that region?

try: M-x copy-region-as-kill

which inserts the region into the kill ring, but which does not modify the
source buffer.  you can then switch to the destination buffer and C-y

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