Mac – Clear the kill ring in emacs

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How does one clear the kill ring in emacs? I use browse-kill-ring.el but the buffer it provides is read-only.

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For me, M-: (setq kill-ring nil) works. See also Internals of Kill Ring in the elisp manual. Don't ask me about side effects and security aspects, though.

Invoking the garbage collection right away as in

(progn (setq kill-ring nil) (garbage-collect))

makes the conses less accessible, so this might give you some degree of security.

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Mac – How to Bind CMD+W to Kill Current Buffer in Emacs

(defun kill-current-buffer ()
  (interactive)
  (kill-buffer (current-buffer)))
(global-set-key (kbd "s-w") 'kill-current-buffer)

(Credit goes to jlf at #emacs)

Mac – Emacs – kill buffer without prompt

By default, Emacs doesn't ask you if you want to kill the buffer. It does ask you which buffer you want to kill.

If you don't want to be asked which buffer you want to kill, you can use this:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-x k") 'kill-this-buffer)

If you're being prompted for confirmation, then there's something in your .emacs (or the site specific initialziation). Try running emacs -q to check Emacs w/out your .emacs.

Note: Verified with Emacs 23.2.

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