Re: kill-ring visualization

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> I find browse-kill-ring very convenient.
> It cleverly advices m-y so if its run before any preceding yank, it
> shows the contents of the kill-ring and the user can select one entry to
> be yanked.
> Could something like this be included in Emacs-24? I feel it would be
> useful to newcomers (and old-timers with bad short-term memory like me)

I think it's indeed a very nice feature.  I end up not using it much,
but at least it seems like a natural use for M-y.

OTOH the few times I've used it I wished it use a form of completion.
Basically, I'd like it to use an interface similar to completing-read,
except maybe that it'd bring up the *Completions* buffer right away (and
that the completion would use a substring search).

So I think if we want to enable such a feature by default, it'd need to
be better integrated with the completion code.


        Stefan