From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Another keybinding nit for afterwards Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:39:03 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162060777 16247 80.91.229.2 (28 Oct 2006 18:39:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 28 20:39:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gdt5Z-0007TK-5t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:39:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gdt5Y-0000es-OI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:39:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gdt5I-0000cO-Tp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:39:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gdt5G-0000ap-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:39:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gdt5G-0000ai-B3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gdt5G-0001OB-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.51]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k9SId2k5016540 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:39:02 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-73-110.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.73.110]) by rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with SMTP id k9SId16S024598 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:39:02 -0600 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:61299 Archived-At: C-y only yanks the top of the kill stack, nothing else. A prefix argument will just get used as a multiplicator, like with self-insert-command. I don't want to make an incompatible change like this without taking a poll. For the poll, I agree with such a change. I also agree that M-y should start with the 2nd, not the top, kill-ring item. For the discussion, someone else I think suggested on help-gnu-emacs that a positive prefix arg to C-y could multiply pastes (like the above proposal) and a negative prefix arg could continue to pull items from deeper in the kill-ring. I prefer the simple proposal made above. I would be curious to know, however, if there was a particular reason for the current treatment of the C-y prefix arg - what was the rationale? Was it perhaps done before M-y did what it does?