Re: Different semantics for yank-pop??

[Alex Rice <alex@mindlube.com>]

On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 12:13  PM, Larry Denenberg wrote:

>
> I'm running Mac OS X and picked up a pre-built Emacs from Mindlube, 
> not an
> official released version.
>
> When I run emacs with "emacs --nw" from a Terminal window, yank-pop 
> works
> just like I expect it to.  But when I invoke the Emacs application 
> from the
> finder (like other OS X applications) things are screwy.  The first 
> yank-pop
> of a sequence seems to yank the top of the kill ring (i.e., the same 
> text
> yanked by the immediately preceding C-y) rather than the previous 
> entry.
> So, for example, C-k C-y M-y is always a no-op, whereas I expect it to
> replace the rest of the line with the previous kill.
>
> I don't know quite where to ask about this since the provenance of my 
> Emacs
> is so informal.  Any help would be appreciated.

Hello, When doing C-k C-y M-y, hit M-y again and you should see the 
normal behavior. For some reason the first M-y has no effect, or 
contains the first entry in the kill ring, as you say. However, 
subsequent M-y work as expected. At least that's what I'm seeing. I'm 
filing bug report about the empty yank item. You can do this too if you 
find anything else (M-x report-emacs-bug).

Also make sure to notice the Menu item Edit | Select and Paste. It 
shows the current contents of your kill ring. So you can tell the kill 
ring is at least doing it's job.

Hope this helps,

//     Alex Rice <alex@mindlube.com>
//     Mindlube Software
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