Re: clear the kill-ring and free memory?

[unfrostedpoptart <david@therogoffs.com>]

On Thursday, September 12, 2013 3:08:10 PM UTC-7, Drew Adams wrote:
> > > > Sure?  What about `kill-ring-yank-pointer' and `yank-menu'?
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> > > What about them?  I don't think that either is a problem (e.g.,
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> > > "illegal state").  But I'll be glad to be shown wrong.
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> > `kill-ring-yank-pointer': dunno too, but you might get surprised, I
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> > would set it nil, too.
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> I really don't think so.  Did you try it?
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> > `yank-menu': Since unfrostedpoptart wants to free memory, I assume that
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> > he has some really huge kills in his kill ring and wants to get rid of
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> > these objects in memory.  These kills are stored in `yank-menu' too, so
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> > you'll have to reset this variable to garbage-collect those kills.
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> Agreed.
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> I was answering only the question about problems - an "illegal state"
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> from emptying `kill-ring'.  But you are right that emptying it alone
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> does not solve the memory problem.
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> `kill-ring-max' takes care of both sets of pastables.

Thanks for the help!