From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Move yanked entry to front of kill ring instead of other way around
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:54:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fi35i0$r3k$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f42c6c70-aa7b-4aa0-8ed5-741325dff4d7@l22g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
bramadams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using OSX Aquamacs 1.2a (based on emacs 22), but the following
> issue also occurs on e.g. Slackware 10.2's emacs (21.4.2).
>
> If one kills a number of things in a row, e.g. "haha", "hoho" and
> "hihi", and then yanks the second-to-last ("hoho"), the front of the
> kill ring has moved to "hoho". If one then wants to yank "hihi", one
> needs to cycle back through the whole kill ring until it overflows
> again and the last killed entries are reached again. This can be
> tedious after editing for a while.
>
> Is there some command which allows to either cycle backwards in the
> kill ring (from the front to the newer entries; "undo" does not work
> for this), or (better yet) to physically move a yanked entry to the
> front of the ring? In that case, in my example "hoho" and "hihi" would
> just swap places.
Isn't it just a matter of providing a negative prefix arg to yank (C-y)
or yank-pop (M-y)? E.g. `M- C-y' or `C-y M- M-y'
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-22 5:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-21 10:48 Move yanked entry to front of kill ring instead of other way around bramadams
2007-11-22 5:54 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.3931.1195711151.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-22 8:45 ` bramadams
2007-11-22 16:07 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-11-22 16:34 ` bramadams
2007-11-26 16:17 ` bramadams
2007-12-05 17:08 ` Mathias Dahl
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