From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Move yanked entry to front of kill ring instead of other way around Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:54:08 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195711182 28329 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2007 05:59:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:59:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 22 06:59:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iv56I-0006IL-I4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:59:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iv564-0002Wc-Ez for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:59:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iv55h-0002Vw-4T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:59:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iv55e-0002VB-Ue for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:59:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iv55e-0002V7-IF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:59:06 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iv55e-0007Wc-0E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:59:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Iv52g-0002nZ-5X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:56:02 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:56:02 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:56:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Macintosh/20070809) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49404 Archived-At: 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