From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: kill-ring visualization Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:06:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268921228 20286 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2010 14:07:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 18 15:07:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsGNH-0005hR-Nc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:07:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39537 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsGNH-0005jI-3I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:06:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsGN8-0005e5-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57356 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsGN5-0005ZS-M7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsGN4-0001Pq-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:9352 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsGN3-0001Pm-S9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:06:45 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEANvQoUtFpZMX/2dsb2JhbACbLHS5eoR5BIsb X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,267,1267419600"; d="scan'208";a="58537875" Original-Received: from 69-165-147-23.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.147.23]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 18 Mar 2010 10:06:44 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 60B8A7FF4; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:06:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:18:29 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:122160 Archived-At: > I find browse-kill-ring very convenient. > It cleverly advices m-y so if its run before any preceding yank, it > shows the contents of the kill-ring and the user can select one entry to > be yanked. > Could something like this be included in Emacs-24? I feel it would be > useful to newcomers (and old-timers with bad short-term memory like me) I think it's indeed a very nice feature. I end up not using it much, but at least it seems like a natural use for M-y. OTOH the few times I've used it I wished it use a form of completion. Basically, I'd like it to use an interface similar to completing-read, except maybe that it'd bring up the *Completions* buffer right away (and that the completion would use a substring search). So I think if we want to enable such a feature by default, it'd need to be better integrated with the completion code. Stefan