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Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:48:48 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 9 Dec 2022 23:14:30 +0000") X-Hashcash: 1:20:221213:59934@debbugs.gnu.org::42VJFATTETe+sQtI:5Lyp X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:250781 Archived-At: close 59934 29.1 thanks Drew Adams writes: > The docstring of `kill-matching-lines' already says (just at the end): > > If you merely want to delete the lines, without adding them to > the kill ring, the M-x flush-lines command is faster. > > True. What's missing there is the name correspondence/similarity. > I think it would be more helpful if it used `M-x delete-matching-lines'. > Following that link, a user would see that the other name for that is `flush-lines'. > but the one for `delete-matching-lines'/`flush-lines' does not mention the kill- version. Thanks, I fixed that on emacs-29 (commit 489bcacc7c).