Re: yank-match.el -- yank matches for a regexp from kill-ring

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

> Rather than stuffing it into simple.el, I guess I'd create a new file
> yank-match.el (suggestions for other destinations welcome).

May I make some remarks?  Usually a good function is harder to find
in a separate small file.  Also it is more difficult to incorporate a
separate file into the core functionality.  But this would be useful:
when I tried using your `yank-match' at the first try it yanked the
first match but I needed one of the next matches.  Then I typed M-y
to cycle next matches, but this method failed.  I think just like a
sequence of `C-y M-y M-y M-y' cycles the kill-ring it would be good to
do the same for `yank-match' as `M-x yank-match RET regexp RET M-y M-y'
to cycle matches from the kill-ring.

BTW, I have a command for similar purposes:

(defun insert-yank-from-kill-ring (string)
  "Insert the selected item from the kill-ring in the minibuffer history.
Use minibuffer navigation and search commands to browse the kill-ring
in the minibuffer history."
  (interactive (list (read-string "Yank from kill-ring: " nil 'kill-ring)))
  (insert-for-yank string))

Comparing to your approach, it has one drawback: multi-line elements
in the kill-ring will resize the minibuffer, but in other respects
those are complementing approaches.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/