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* bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring
@ 2011-08-30 11:39 Dani Moncayo
  2011-08-30 12:08 ` Juri Linkov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 31+ messages in thread
From: Dani Moncayo @ 2011-08-30 11:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9406

Package: emacs
Severity: wishlist

As all of you know, if you want to yank into a buffer some entry from
the kill ring (which is not the last one), you have to yank the first
entry (C-y) and then look for the right one by typing M-y repeatedly.

IMO, this way of navigating through the kill ring has two problems:
1. Is not intuitive: the standard way of "history searching" is with
M-p/M-n (Search ring, minibuffer input, ...).
2. Is cumbersome in some cases: If you repeat `M-y' quickly to find an
old entry and realize that the wanted entry was already retrieved, you
have to invoke a negative prefix argument and then `M-y'.  Pretty
cumbersome.

Therefore, my proposal is obvious: Just after yanking some text into
some buffer (and before doing anything else) the keys M-p/M-n should
allow the user to navigate (backward/forward) through the kill ring.
The selected entry would be placed in the buffer (as happens now with
M-y).


-- 
Dani Moncayo





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2011-08-30 11:39 bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring Dani Moncayo
2011-08-30 12:08 ` Juri Linkov
2011-08-30 12:17   ` Dani Moncayo
2011-08-30 12:27     ` Juri Linkov
2011-08-30 18:13       ` Deniz Dogan
2011-08-30 18:48         ` Dani Moncayo
2011-08-31  6:22       ` Dani Moncayo
2011-08-31  9:51         ` Juri Linkov
2011-08-31 10:45           ` Dani Moncayo
2011-08-31 13:01         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-31 13:55           ` Deniz Dogan
2011-08-31 14:33             ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-08-31 14:52               ` Deniz Dogan
2011-09-02  0:39               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-31 15:40             ` Dani Moncayo
2011-08-31 15:45               ` Deniz Dogan
2011-08-31 16:11               ` Drew Adams
2011-08-31 15:33           ` Dani Moncayo
2011-08-31 15:47           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-08-31 16:36             ` Juri Linkov
2011-08-31 21:18               ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-01  8:42                 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-01  9:13                   ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-01  9:53                     ` Antoine Levitt
2011-09-01 10:28                       ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-01 13:22                     ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-01 14:44                       ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-01 19:59                         ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-09-01 21:56                           ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-02  1:24                             ` David De La Harpe Golden
2022-04-27 14:21   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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