killring as registers

killring as registers

[Thomas Meyer]

hi,

i'm relativley new to emacs and half way through the manual, and i
wonder if there is an easy way to access old killring content? i would
like to use the killring as an "clipboard history" but as far as i
understand the topic there seems to be no good support, i.e. key binding
to search the killring and access old content.

so, is there an extension that lets me access the last 10 killring
entries as registers 0-9? that would make it a bit better for usage?

or asked the other way around: how do you use the killring and its
history?

with kind regards
thomas

Re: killring as registers

[Robert Pluim]

Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> writes:

> hi,
>
> i'm relativley new to emacs and half way through the manual, and i
> wonder if there is an easy way to access old killring content? i would
> like to use the killring as an "clipboard history" but as far as i
> understand the topic there seems to be no good support, i.e. key binding
> to search the killring and access old content.
>

You can do 'C-h v kill-ring' to show the current contents of the
kill-ring, but itʼs not in a format I find helpful.

> so, is there an extension that lets me access the last 10 killring
> entries as registers 0-9? that would make it a bit better for usage?
>
> or asked the other way around: how do you use the killring and its
> history?

Helm has a nice interface where 'M-y' pops up a buffer with the
kill-ring history.

Regards

Robert

Re: killring as registers

[Robert Pluim]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> writes:
>> so, is there an extension that lets me access the last 10 killring
>> entries as registers 0-9? that would make it a bit better for usage?
>>
>> or asked the other way around: how do you use the killring and its
>> history?
>
> Helm has a nice interface where 'M-y' pops up a buffer with the
> kill-ring history.
>

Make that 'helm-show-kill-ring'. 'M-y' is just my local binding.

RE: killring as registers

[Drew Adams]

> or asked the other way around: how do you use the killring and its
> history?

The standard way is to follow `C-y' with `M-y', repeating `M-y' to
cycle backward through the history to find the kill what you want.

There are a few libraries that give you other ways to yank past
kills than just cycling through the history.

One way:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrowseKillRing

Another (using Icicles): `C-- C-y' or top-level `M-y' lets you yank
past kills using completion. You can filter or sort the candidates
on the fly.

Re: killring as registers

[Joost Kremers]

On Sat, Sep 29 2018, Robert Pluim wrote:
> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> writes:
>>> so, is there an extension that lets me access the last 10 
>>> killring
>>> entries as registers 0-9? that would make it a bit better for 
>>> usage?
>>>
>>> or asked the other way around: how do you use the killring and 
>>> its
>>> history?
>>
>> Helm has a nice interface where 'M-y' pops up a buffer with the
>> kill-ring history.
>>
>
> Make that 'helm-show-kill-ring'. 'M-y' is just my local binding.

And of course the ivy/counsel package also offers 
counsel-yank-pop.

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments

Re: killring as registers

[Charles A. Roelli]

> From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 14:07:52 +0200
>
> hi,
> 
> i'm relativley new to emacs and half way through the manual, and i
> wonder if there is an easy way to access old killring content? i would
> like to use the killring as an "clipboard history" but as far as i
> understand the topic there seems to be no good support, i.e. key binding
> to search the killring and access old content.
> 
> so, is there an extension that lets me access the last 10 killring
> entries as registers 0-9? that would make it a bit better for usage?
> 
> or asked the other way around: how do you use the killring and its
> history?
> 
> with kind regards
> thomas

Previous kills are visible on the "Edit" menu, under "Select and
Paste" (for NS builds), or "Paste from Kill Menu" (for other builds).
Using "text-mode menu", you can also see these kills via:

  M-` e s, for NS builds

and for other builds, via the equivalent keys, possibly M-` e P.