From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: package wanted: browse kill-ring, but works like undo-tree Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:23:33 -0700 Message-ID: <454F34CA72724405B40EB5419C85FF6B@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366647830 558 80.91.229.3 (22 Apr 2013 16:23:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:23:50 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Steven Degutis'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 22 18:23:54 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UUJX0-0003e7-52 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:23:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38094 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUJWz-0002ja-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53163) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUJWl-0002c7-Ml for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:23:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUJWk-000791-0O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:23:39 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:16706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUJWj-00078j-Qc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r3MGNZhe000430 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:23:35 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r3MGNY4i009412 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:23:35 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt120.oracle.com (abhmt120.oracle.com [141.146.116.72]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r3MGNYNV010131; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:23:34 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.8) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:23:34 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Ac4/c/e1hC3SkR7yRzy7C1gxrrmoHAAAJ93A X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90291 Archived-At: (Please send mail to this mailing list as plain text, not HTML.) > I recently tried `browse-kill-ring` (on melpa) and in theory > it's really cool. But the way it works with window-configurations > and such ends up ruining my windows. Plus the way you exit out of > it isn't idiomatic for an emacs package. > > I brought these up to the author but he seems uninterested in > making these fixes. Would anyone else be willing to make such > a package? > > Basically, when you do `M-x browse-kill-ring` (or however > you'd bind it), it would open a new window with the contents > of the kill ring in rows, separated by some kind of line. > You could then move up and down between them with 'n' and 'p', > and as you do so, it would update your original buffer live, > yanking the text right into your buffer as if you pasted it. > Each time you move across the kill ring "list", it would > replace in your buffer the last snippet with the current one > you're on. When you find the one you want, you'd just do 'q' > to close the window. Or you could "cancel" the whole > operation by some other key (not sure which one makes the > most sense). No idea whether some of the extensions and alternatives covered here might help with what you don't like about browse-kill-ring, but just in case: http://www.emacswiki.org/BrowseKillRing