From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: clear the kill-ring and free memory? Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:11:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87six9dcma.fsf@web.de> References: <53036360-fe7a-4c1d-90cb-bf9f79a07982@googlegroups.com> <34ebb446-138f-407c-8bbb-e7c3c528c57a@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379016734 28803 80.91.229.3 (12 Sep 2013 20:12:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:12:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 12 22:12:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VKDFG-0001Pq-Go for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:12:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43651 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKDFG-0007Lf-1z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKDF0-0007LR-Sx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:11:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKDEv-000225-CB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:11:50 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37034) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKDEv-00021e-5u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:11:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VKDEl-0000ho-3l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:11:35 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-62-167.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.62.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:11:35 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-62-167.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:11:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-62-167.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kBwGsQ8EwqzBlGeisyvWse3pBPk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93360 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > > (setq kill-ring nil) > > (garbage-collect) > > > > but I don't know if that would leave some clipboard > > functions/variables in > > an illegal state. > > Nope. Go for it. No problem. Sure? What about `kill-ring-yank-pointer' and `yank-menu'? Michael.