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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: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:08:10 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9538d72-f469-49ad-8339-56b4d36100ac@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4ct3f2g.fsf@web.de>

> > > Sure?  What about `kill-ring-yank-pointer' and `yank-menu'?
> >
> > What about them?  I don't think that either is a problem (e.g.,
> > "illegal state").  But I'll be glad to be shown wrong.
> 
> `kill-ring-yank-pointer': dunno too, but you might get surprised, I
> would set it nil, too.

I really don't think so.  Did you try it?

> `yank-menu': Since unfrostedpoptart wants to free memory, I assume that
> he has some really huge kills in his kill ring and wants to get rid of
> these objects in memory.  These kills are stored in `yank-menu' too, so
> you'll have to reset this variable to garbage-collect those kills.

Agreed.

I was answering only the question about problems - an "illegal state"
from emptying `kill-ring'.  But you are right that emptying it alone
does not solve the memory problem.

`kill-ring-max' takes care of both sets of pastables.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-12 22:08 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 [this message]
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
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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