* bug#27745: Warn: you have already yanked the same thing 2 (3, 4...) times in a row
@ 2017-07-17 23:49 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-07-21 14:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson @ 2017-07-17 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 27745
Unless the user pays attention to the L number in the modeline, and the
shrinking scrollbar, there is no other clues that the user's C-y isn't
stuck or slow, and he is actually probably mistakenly yanking twice...
repeating paragraphs, or even doubling the size of a file.
$ seq 99 > a
$ emacs a
C-x h [mark-whole-buffer]
C-w [kill-region]
C-y [yank]
C-y [yank]
C-y [yank]
C-y [yank]
C-y [yank]
C-y [yank]
C-y [yank]
So maybe print:
Warning: you have already yanked the same thing 2 (3,4...) times in a row.
if he yanks the exact same thing more than once.
(This problem is similar to
http://debbugs.gnu.org/25433
but that is harder to reproduce, so I'll close it.)
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* bug#27745: Warn: you have already yanked the same thing 2 (3, 4...) times in a row
2017-07-17 23:49 bug#27745: Warn: you have already yanked the same thing 2 (3, 4...) times in a row 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
@ 2019-07-21 14:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-22 0:49 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-07-21 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson; +Cc: 27745
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> $ seq 99 > a
> $ emacs a
> C-x h [mark-whole-buffer]
> C-w [kill-region]
> C-y [yank]
> C-y [yank]
> C-y [yank]
> C-y [yank]
> C-y [yank]
> C-y [yank]
> C-y [yank]
>
> So maybe print:
> Warning: you have already yanked the same thing 2 (3,4...) times in a row.
> if he yanks the exact same thing more than once.
Yanking the same thing several times is a perfectly normal thing to do,
so I think it would be a disservice for Emacs to warn about this. Closing.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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* bug#27745: Warn: you have already yanked the same thing 2 (3, 4...) times in a row
2019-07-21 14:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2019-07-22 0:49 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Basil L. Contovounesios @ 2019-07-22 0:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 27745, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
>
>> $ seq 99 > a
>> $ emacs a
>> C-x h [mark-whole-buffer]
>> C-w [kill-region]
>> C-y [yank]
>> C-y [yank]
>> C-y [yank]
>> C-y [yank]
>> C-y [yank]
>> C-y [yank]
>> C-y [yank]
>>
>> So maybe print:
>> Warning: you have already yanked the same thing 2 (3,4...) times in a row.
>> if he yanks the exact same thing more than once.
>
> Yanking the same thing several times is a perfectly normal thing to do,
> so I think it would be a disservice for Emacs to warn about this.
I agree. See also the user option kill-do-not-save-duplicates.
--
Basil
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