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Following the advice given on p. 121 of Learning GNU Emacs, 2nd Ed., I'm entering the command sequence: C-c C-o, immediately after executing a command in my Emacs shell buffer. And I'm seeing the output from that command get flushed, as expected.

However, the flushed output is not making it into my kill ring. When I move into another buffer and give the command: C-y, I don't get the flushed output. Instead, I get the last thing I copied in Safari, using: Cmd-C.

I'm on a MacBook Pro running MacOS X 10.13.6 (High Sierra). And I'm running Emacs v26.1, from Emacs for MacOS X.

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  • Maybe it's a mistake in that book? I don't see anything in the docstring suggesting the kill ring should be affected by that command.
    – npostavs
    Sep 7, 2018 at 0:42
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    the 2nd edition of that book us 22 years old, so there are bound to be things in there that are out of date
    – Tyler
    Sep 7, 2018 at 2:30

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As suggested by the comments, the book is out of date in this respect.

That command no longer kills the region; it just deletes it.

The change was released in GNU Emacs 19.34 (21-aug-96)

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