Re: Move yanked entry to front of kill ring instead of other way around

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.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