kill ring questions, #emacs

kill ring questions, #emacs

[Emanuel Berg]

I just posted this on #emacs but I don't see
why I can't post it here as well. They say in
the topic "No public logging! What happens in
#emacs stays in #emacs" but surely that doesn't
refer to 100% on-topic Q&As, right? (Or, for
that matter, the topic itself :))

<incal> hello, is there a setting to inhibit
        the kill ring from filling up with
        several back-to-back instances of the
        same string?
        
<incal> also why is the kill ring fontified?
        why not let that be determined by the
        mode/context of the new place, where it
        is yanked?
        
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Re: kill ring questions, #emacs

[Emanuel Berg]

> <incal> hello, is there a setting to inhibit
>         the kill ring from filling up with
>         several back-to-back instances of the
>         same string?

`kill-do-not-save-duplicates'

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Re: kill ring questions, #emacs

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-04-15, at 06:06, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:

> <incal> also why is the kill ring fontified?
>         why not let that be determined by the
>         mode/context of the new place, where it
>         is yanked?

Why not?  You can discard fontification when yanking (see
`yank-excluded-properties'), and what if someone wants to yank /with/
the properties?

Hth,

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Re: kill ring questions, #emacs

[Teemu Likonen]

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Emanuel Berg [2018-04-15 06:06:15+02] wrote:

> <incal> also why is the kill ring fontified?
>         why not let that be determined by the
>         mode/context of the new place, where it
>         is yanked?

I can't answer the "why" question but since I don't like it when I'm
yankin I exclude all face properties on yank:

    (add-to-list 'yank-excluded-properties 'face)

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Re: kill ring questions, #emacs

[Emanuel Berg]

Marcin Borkowski wrote:

> Why not? You can discard fontification when
> yanking (see `yank-excluded-properties'), and
> what if someone wants to yank /with/
> the properties?

He/she should be punished.

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Re: kill ring questions, #emacs

[Emanuel Berg]

Teemu Likonen wrote:

> I can't answer the "why" question but since
> I don't like it when I'm yankin I exclude all
> face properties on yank:
>
>     (add-to-list 'yank-excluded-properties
>     'face)

Sensible. Thank you.

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