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From: Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: package wanted: browse kill-ring, but works like undo-tree
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:10:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACeWA3gj4cutTtF4QW-y=FPFEEc=GoRdMbBgGX-_Yk932fGETA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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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).

-Steven

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             reply	other threads:[~2013-04-22 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-22 16:10 Steven Degutis [this message]
2013-04-22 16:23 ` package wanted: browse kill-ring, but works like undo-tree Drew Adams
2013-04-22 16:42   ` Steven Degutis
2013-04-22 16:31 ` Le Wang
2013-04-22 16:45   ` Steven Degutis
2013-04-23  0:05     ` Le Wang

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