From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: clear the kill-ring and free memory? Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <53036360-fe7a-4c1d-90cb-bf9f79a07982@googlegroups.com> <34ebb446-138f-407c-8bbb-e7c3c528c57a@default> <87six9dcma.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379019426 28838 80.91.229.3 (12 Sep 2013 20:57:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:57:06 +0000 (UTC) To: Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 12 22:57:08 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 1VKDwp-0005xg-H1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:57:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43807 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKDwp-0001F7-7Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56712) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKDwV-0001Ex-FS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:56:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKDwM-0006Rj-7s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:56:47 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:34157) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKDwL-0006Rd-W8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:56:38 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r8CKuYiw016597 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:56:35 GMT Original-Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8CKuXo6000694 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:56:34 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt117.oracle.com (abhmt117.oracle.com [141.146.116.69]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8CKuWXs016345; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:56:32 GMT In-Reply-To: <87six9dcma.fsf@web.de> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:93363 Archived-At: > > > (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. >=20 > Sure? What about `kill-ring-yank-pointer' and `yank-menu'? What about them? I don't think that either is a problem (e.g., "illegal state"). But I'll be glad to be shown wrong. `Edit > Paste from Kill Menu' won't be emptied too, but there is no problem with that, AFAIK. If you are worried, do this instead: (setq kill-ring-max 1) Copy some text. (setq kill-ring-max 60) ; or whatever