Re: kill-ring visualization

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

joakim@verona.se writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>>
>>>> PS: I do not know how to do regexp-style completion, to tell you the
>>>> truth.  I.e. I know how to implement the all-completions part of it,
>>>> obviously, but I don't know how to then merge the matches into something
>>>> suitable for try-completion.  I guess you could just apply
>>>> try-completion to the list of matches, but that would only lead to
>>>> something useful if the matches share some prefix.
>>>
>>> Currently a `*' in the completion string acts as the simplest regexp
>>> (wildcard), and it does its job pretty well.  Couldn't this be extended
>>> to the true regular expressions?
>>
>> Actually, anything have a source to browse killring.
>> I use it always, it's very nice.
>> However, you could reuse the code of bookmark-bmenu-search (see
>> bookmark.el) as interface for kill ring to mimic what anything does.
>> You will narrow down killring list when typing.
>>
>
> Nice I didnt know that. I use Anything all the time as well.
You will find other useful things in anything-config.el.
http://repo.or.cz/w/anything-config.git

> Could Anything be included in Emacs?
Would be great!

>> See also ioccur.el:
>> http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/ioccurThat use same technique.

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