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I'd like my kill ring to remain unaffected when I kill an org-capture invocation.

  1. put a URL in my OS clipboard (and thus kill ring)
  2. org-capture and start to create a bookmarks entry
  3. cancel org-capture for whatever reason with C-c C-k
  4. [CURRENT BAD BEHAVIOR] try again -- uh oh, my kill ring has been polluted by the text of the canceled org-capture session!
  5. [DESIRED GOOD BEHAVIOR] try again with the same clipboard/kill-ring contents I had as of [2]

How do I achieve this in idiomatic org-mode elisp?

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  • The current behavior is baked-in: see the call to kill-region in org-capture-finalize - kill-region will always add the text to the kill ring. You could change that to delete-region in your copy of org-capture.el but that is probably not a good idea. The function called when you press C-c C-k is org-capture-kill and there is a somewhat cryptic comment that leads me to believe that this is a known ... Commented Oct 16 at 16:15
  • ... problem, so I would suggest that you submit a bug report to the Org mode mailing list with M-x org-submit-bug-report - that might prompt the devs to re-examine the behavior. Commented Oct 16 at 16:17

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My current workaround is to advise org-capture-kill with a function that mutates the kill ring (hopefully) back to the state it was previously.

(defun dl/advice:pop-kill-ring ()
  ;; Motivation: org-capture adds canceled capture text to kill-ring :(
  ;; see https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/85137/how-to-configure-org-capture-to-not-add-canceled-capture-text-to-kill-ring
  ;; impl from https://stackoverflow.com/a/13142796/706499
  (when kill-ring
    (setq kill-ring (cdr kill-ring)))
  (when kill-ring-yank-pointer
    (setq kill-ring-yank-pointer kill-ring)))

(advice-add 'org-capture-kill :after #'dl/advice:pop-kill-ring)

If org-mode ever fixes/changes the underlying behavior (and I don't notice) this will of course lead me to pull my hair out in frustration.

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