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Re: How to yank into a string variable

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From: Fred H. Bremmer
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 18:12
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mathys@dover.sps.mot.com (Yves Mathys) writes:

>I would like to read a region and save it into a string variable. 

Once you have the region in the kill ring, use the command M-x set-variable,
tell it which variable you want to set, then use C-y to plug in the value
that you want the variable to have.

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Subject: Re: How to yank into a string variable
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