From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: 9406@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:39:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0hB1Of8FhHdQxBCAwgddJVrd7L6+qUjEFHZPqz7ycaAFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Package: emacs
Severity: wishlist
As all of you know, if you want to yank into a buffer some entry from
the kill ring (which is not the last one), you have to yank the first
entry (C-y) and then look for the right one by typing M-y repeatedly.
IMO, this way of navigating through the kill ring has two problems:
1. Is not intuitive: the standard way of "history searching" is with
M-p/M-n (Search ring, minibuffer input, ...).
2. Is cumbersome in some cases: If you repeat `M-y' quickly to find an
old entry and realize that the wanted entry was already retrieved, you
have to invoke a negative prefix argument and then `M-y'. Pretty
cumbersome.
Therefore, my proposal is obvious: Just after yanking some text into
some buffer (and before doing anything else) the keys M-p/M-n should
allow the user to navigate (backward/forward) through the kill ring.
The selected entry would be placed in the buffer (as happens now with
M-y).
--
Dani Moncayo
next reply other threads:[~2011-08-30 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-30 11:39 Dani Moncayo [this message]
2011-08-30 12:08 ` bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring Juri Linkov
2011-08-30 12:17 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-08-30 12:27 ` Juri Linkov
2011-08-30 18:13 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-08-30 18:48 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-08-31 6:22 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-08-31 9:51 ` Juri Linkov
2011-08-31 10:45 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-08-31 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-31 13:55 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-08-31 14:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-08-31 14:52 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-09-02 0:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-31 15:40 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-08-31 15:45 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-08-31 16:11 ` Drew Adams
2011-08-31 15:33 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-08-31 15:47 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-08-31 16:36 ` Juri Linkov
2011-08-31 21:18 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-01 8:42 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-01 9:13 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-01 9:53 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-09-01 10:28 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-01 13:22 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-01 14:44 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-01 19:59 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-09-01 21:56 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-02 1:24 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2022-04-27 14:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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