From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 25196@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25196: mention how to see top or middle of each yank-pop
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:16:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ef2bk9se.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgvjfy2n.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Wed, 14 Dec 2016 03:06:40 +0800")
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> To the bottom of
> "yank-pop is an interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘simple.el’.
> It is bound to M-y." help text, please add:
>
> yank-pop is nice except when the popped text takes up more than a screen.
>
> In that case the only way to see what is at the top of the text is to
> move the cursor thus breaking the yank-pop sequence.
>
> In such cases one might more or less salvage some text by looking
> directly for it in
> the 'kill-ring', although it is in a different format than the original...
That doesn't really seem applicable for the doc string.
> Anyway the yank-pop docstring should at least mention 'kill-ring'.
I've now done so on the trunk.
> Also in (info "(emacs) Earlier Kills") say how to see the top or middle
> of each yank-pop without breaking the yank-pop sequence.
I don't think there is a way to do that?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-27 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-13 19:06 bug#25196: mention how to see top or middle of each yank-pop 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-07-27 11:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-07-27 22:18 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-28 0:30 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-28 10:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-28 11:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-28 13:33 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-08-01 14:35 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-08-01 14:54 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-01 21:12 ` Juri Linkov
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