Re: package wanted: browse kill-ring, but works like undo-tree

[Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>]

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Sorry about that, didn't realize it was HTML.

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

-Steven


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

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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).
>
> No idea whether some of the extensions and alternatives covered here might
> help
> with what you don't like about browse-kill-ring, but just in case:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/BrowseKillRing
>
>

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