From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Various simple.el patches Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:45:39 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200305151545.h4FFjdJs023036@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200305132031.h4DKVp58013718@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87isscp69n.fsf@peder.flower> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053014236 10700 80.91.224.249 (15 May 2003 15:57:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:57:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 15 17:57:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19GL2o-0002N7-00 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 17:53:22 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19GLAk-0000I7-00 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 18:01:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GL0Y-0007BK-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 11:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GKzJ-0006FC-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 11:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GKyr-00064Q-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 11:49:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GKvM-000411-00; Thu, 15 May 2003 11:45:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4FFjdx6023038; Thu, 15 May 2003 11:45:39 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h4FFjdJs023036; Thu, 15 May 2003 11:45:39 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13900 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13900 > > 1 - When killing the same thing over and over again, don't fill > > the kill-ring unnecessarily. > > Don't do this. It will unexpectedly break moving stuff like: > > foo > bar > bar > baz > > using kill (esp with kill-whole-line t) and subsequent yank. No, this is handled somewhere else. The only negative effect it has (AFAIK) is if you do C-k C-y C-k C-k C-k C-k on the above example: The second C-k overwrites the data from the first so if you do C-y M-y you won't get "foo" but you'll get whatever was on the kill-ring before. Stefan