From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Snippet" database Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:16:24 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87obugwprb.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325881012 31918 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2012 20:16:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:16:52 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 06 21:16:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjGDZ-0004rU-5X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:16:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37262 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjGDY-0002x2-MU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjGDU-0002vW-5v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:16:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjGDP-0000jW-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:16:44 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43465) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjGDP-0000jO-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:16:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjGDN-0004oC-Bl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:16:37 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:16:37 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:16:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lEPA8ce+Z1acvR0Sr9eHCcldhSE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147410 Archived-At: On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:47:58 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> In my various guises I find myself sending out the same rote email LMI> answer to many people. "Thanks for the patch; applied" and stuff. It LMI> would be nice if one could just mark the region, ask Emacs to pull it LMI> into a database of snippets, and then have a command that would insert LMI> them again. LMI> Surely something like this already exists in Emacs, but I just can't LMI> seem to find it. Probably looking for the wrong thing... I usually put it in the kill ring, since with session.el I have the kill ring persistent between Emacs sessions. Normally I just keep doing `M-y' (`yank-pop') repeatedly to find the old text, which in an odd way is similar to what you're suggesting. So maybe a `yank-select' command to select from the kill ring would be useful to you, coupled with a way to persist the kill ring if session.el is too heavy for you? Ted