From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: clear the kill-ring and free memory?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 08:20:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <885e0be9-e807-42ef-8bbe-d1999e35aef7@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877gek7wdd.fsf@web.de>
> Oops, I meant `yank-menu-length'.
FWIW, in spite of the name, that var is not about the length of the menu
(`yank-menu'), which is controlled by `kill-ring-max'.
`yank-menu-length' controls the length of each menu *item* (each kill
shown in the menu - the max number of chars). If a kill is longer than
that length then the menu item shows it with elision, e.g. "Foo Ba...".
So yes, if you have large kills, that var can save memory too. Just
wanted to point out that its name is somewhat misleading - it does
not control the length of the yank menu.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-13 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-12 18:47 clear the kill-ring and free memory? unfrostedpoptart
2013-09-12 19:28 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-12 20:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-09-12 20:56 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-12 21:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-09-12 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-13 1:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-09-13 3:54 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-13 12:13 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-09-13 15:20 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-09-13 16:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.1994.1379023714.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-12 22:25 ` unfrostedpoptart
2013-09-13 4:08 ` Stefan Monnier
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