From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Decebal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Opening file with is in killring Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 13:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4938677d-1e5d-4a5b-b7a5-0cc071150931@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> References: <89c6d6fb-811d-419e-9fa1-33d7fd5b4015@r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com><87skqd54om.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225572088 3203 80.91.229.12 (1 Nov 2008 20:41:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 20:41:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 01 21:42:31 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KwNIi-0001no-R5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:42:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37881 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KwNHb-0003cY-V2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:41:20 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.53.123.169 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1225570831 24442 127.0.0.1 (1 Nov 2008 20:20:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 20:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.53.123.169; posting-account=K-cdeAoAAAD_0d505kUtHXJaT5LFIu-3 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; nl; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164003 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59345 Archived-At: On Nov 1, 5:45=A0pm, "Drew Adams" wrote: > > But this puts the contents of the minibuffer in the killring. :-{ > > Yes, and? ;-) I did not understand the use of the kill-ring. > > I understood that with m-y I should get the previous entry, but when I > > use that I get: Previous command was not a yank > > Correct. `C-y' yanks the head of the kill-ring. `M-y' replaces that inser= tion > with the previous kill-ring entry. `C-y' is a one-time thing; you can rep= eat > `M-y' to move through the ring until you get to the kill you want. Now I do. :-D > [FWIW, outside of the minibuffer, I bind an Icicles multi-command to `C--= C-y'. > It lets you yank any items from the kill-ring using completion, without n= eeding > to cycle through them. You can also cycle if you like, but you need not g= o > through all of them one by one. And you can sort them in various ways, wh= ich > helps when cycling. And you can hit `S-delete' to remove selected candida= tes > from the kill-ring. And you can filter completion matches using multiple > patterns (progressive completion), to quickly get to what you want.] That looks also like something to investigate.