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From: m1tag00@fed.frb.gov (Tim A. Grunwald)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Copy region function for GNU wanted.
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Date: 10 Feb 89 14:18:19 GMT
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In-reply-to: conway@hpdtl.HP.COM (Daniel F. Conway)

In article <6930003@hpdtl.HP.COM>, conway@hpdtl (Daniel F. Conway) writes:
>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?
>
>Dan Conway
>dan_conway@hplabs.hp.com

	Try M-w. 
From C-h k:
copy-region-as-kill:
Save the region as if killed, but don't kill it.

	Tim Grunwald
	Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC, 20551
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