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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 25196@debbugs.gnu.org, "Juri Linkov" <juri@linkov.net>,
	"積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#25196: mention how to see top or middle of each yank-pop
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:35:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9190x8r.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3blxe5v8b.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:06:28 +0200")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>
>> FWIW, here is battle-tested (i.e. use for many years) command
>> that allows looking at the top or middle of each yank-pop before yanking:
>
> What I'd really like (as a new feature) would be to be able to `M-y' and
> then do any other non-editing command, and then be able to continue the
> `M-y' as if I'd not done anything.  Perhaps as a new command, or perhaps
> as just how `M-y' should always behave.
>
> The latter might sound like a controversial behavioural change, but
> `M-y' currently just signals an error in that situation, so I guess the
> impact would be minimal.  (I.e., having `M-y' error out in that
> situation is probably not in anybody's work flow?)

FWIW, see some slightly related discussion in the following thread:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00650.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg01176.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg01194.html

Thanks,

-- 
Basil





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-01 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-13 19:06 bug#25196: mention how to see top or middle of each yank-pop 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-07-27 11:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-27 22:18   ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-28  0:30     ` Drew Adams
2019-07-28 10:06     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-28 11:06       ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-28 13:33         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-08-01 14:35       ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2019-08-01 14:54         ` Drew Adams
2019-08-01 21:12         ` Juri Linkov

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