That’s what I do to move lines around without impacting the kill-ring. Actually I use extract-delete-region, just in case you want to do something else with the region you are deleting…
/PA Enviado desde mi iPhone > El 14 ago 2026, a las 17:36, Dr. Michael Hailer <[email protected]> > escribió: > > > Hi, > > a recent discussion brought up the question of how to delete an Org subtree > without modifying the kill ring. > > Org already provides org-cut-subtree, but there does not appear to be a > corresponding command for simply deleting a subtree. One workaround is to > call org-cut-subtree and then modify the kill ring afterwards, but that seems > undesirable since the intention is not to kill the subtree in the first place. > > Would an org-delete-subtree command be useful in Org core? > > Conceptually, a simple implementation could be along these lines: > > (defun org-delete-subtree (&optional n) > > "Delete the current subtree without adding it to the kill ring. > > With prefix arg N, delete this many sequential subtrees." > > (interactive "p" org-mode) > > ;; Determine the region occupied by N subtrees and delete it > > ;; using `delete-region' instead of `kill-region'. > > ...) > > I left out the detailed implementation here deliberately, since > org-copy-subtree already handles a number of details such as sequential > subtrees, inline tasks, and markers, and it may be preferable to share some > of that machinery rather than duplicate it. > > The intended distinction would simply be: > > org-cut-subtree: remove the subtree and put it into the kill ring > org-delete-subtree: remove the subtree without touching the kill ring > Does this sound like functionality that would be appropriate for Org itself? > > Best regards, > Michael Hailer > > > > > > <publickey - [email protected] - 0x0D521D34.asc>
