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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 42430-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42430: 26.3; Document `ring-next' and `ring-previous' in (elisp) Rings
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:55:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h7txdkt2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a7e80c7-513a-4a29-a2b5-405464b14b08@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 19 Jul 2020 19:32:52 +0000 (UTC))

> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 19:32:52 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 
> See this question:
> 
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/59726/105
> 
> As the asker notes, the doc refers to ring "rotation", but it says
> nothing about how to rotate the ring (cycle to the next/previous
> element.

The manual says:

     For yanking, one entry in the kill ring is designated the front of
  the ring.  Some yank commands rotate the ring by designating a different
  element as the front.  But this virtual rotation doesn’t change the list
  itself—the most recent entry always comes first in the list.

That's all.  I don't see any reason to expand this description of a
"virtual rotation", since that would require bringing many internal
details into the ELisp manual, with no apparent gain.

So I'm closing this bug.





      reply	other threads:[~2020-07-24 14:55 UTC|newest]

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2020-07-19 19:32 bug#42430: 26.3; Document `ring-next' and `ring-previous' in (elisp) Rings Drew Adams
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