From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: clear-kill-ring function Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:46:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87fv0vduug.fsf@web.de> References: <87lhaof6tm.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <87twpcoyjy.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446036418 22029 80.91.229.3 (28 Oct 2015 12:46:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:46:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 28 13:46:50 2015 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 1ZrQ7t-0003Ss-H4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:46:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37758 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrQ7s-0006js-V6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:46:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43861) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrQ7h-0006jg-2e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:46:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrQ7d-0002cl-18 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44879) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrQ7c-0002cR-QU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:46:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrQ7b-0003BJ-1T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:46:31 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-3-183.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.3.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:46:31 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-3-183.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:46:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-3-183.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HO64mt9gEBudUFzdn4YK+wBBLHo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:107864 Archived-At: Joost Kremers writes: > (defun clear-kill-ring () > "Clear the kill ring variable" > (interactive) > (setq kill-ring nil)) > (global-set-key (kbd "s-/") 'clear-kill-ring) It's more consistent to also reset the yank pointer: (defun clear-kill-ring () "Clear the kill ring variable" (interactive) (setq kill-ring nil kill-ring-yank-pointer nil)) > > Or, IOW, the function isn't working! > > It probably is. Indeed, it is. Michael.