From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: kill-ring visualization
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:53:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy6hf2645.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aatwv12t.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:29:57 +0200")
>> If you use a `substring' style completion, you're already closer (tho
>> it's not a regexp-search).
> Is the below what you mean?
Yes. Here's my "not for installation" code, FWIW,
Stefan
--- lisp/simple.el 2010-02-16 14:40:45 +0000
+++ lisp/simple.el 2010-03-24 14:52:19 +0000
@@ -3115,7 +3197,7 @@
doc string for `insert-for-yank-1', which see."
(interactive "*p")
(if (not (eq last-command 'yank))
- (error "Previous command was not a yank"))
+ (call-interactively 'yank-browse)
(setq this-command 'yank)
(unless arg (setq arg 1))
(let ((inhibit-read-only t)
@@ -3135,7 +3217,7 @@
;; loop would deactivate the mark because we inserted text.
(goto-char (prog1 (mark t)
(set-marker (mark-marker) (point) (current-buffer))))))
- nil)
+ nil))
(defun yank (&optional arg)
"Reinsert (\"paste\") the last stretch of killed text.
@@ -3171,6 +3257,23 @@
(setq this-command 'yank))
nil)
+(defun yank-browse ()
+ "Browse the `kill-ring' to choose which entry to yank."
+ (interactive)
+ (minibuffer-with-setup-hook
+ (lambda ()
+ (set (make-local-variable 'completion-styles) '(substring))
+ ;; FIXME: use more separation between entries in *Completions*,
+ ;; somehow cleanup the \n in there as well. Maybe indent the
+ ;; entries a little bit.
+ (minibuffer-completion-help))
+ (let* ((kills (delete-dups (append kill-ring-yank-pointer kill-ring)))
+ (entry (completing-read "Yank: " kills nil t))
+ )
+ (setq this-command 'yank)
+ (insert-for-yank entry))))
+
+
(defun rotate-yank-pointer (arg)
"Rotate the yanking point in the kill ring.
With ARG, rotate that many kills forward (or backward, if negative)."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-26 2:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-18 6:18 kill-ring visualization joakim
2010-03-18 14:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-18 18:39 ` Leo
2010-03-18 19:37 ` joakim
2010-03-24 9:34 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-24 13:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-25 7:04 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-25 9:47 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-25 10:13 ` joakim
2010-03-25 10:20 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-25 13:56 ` anything.el inclusion (was: kill-ring visualization) Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-25 17:28 ` anything.el inclusion Juri Linkov
2010-03-26 6:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-26 7:01 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-26 7:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-26 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-29 18:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-29 19:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-04-03 5:44 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-04-03 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-03 14:17 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-04-03 19:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-26 17:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-27 19:38 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-27 21:35 ` Johan Busk Eriksson
2010-03-28 7:58 ` Yoni Rabkin
2010-03-28 17:39 ` joakim
2010-03-29 18:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-26 2:00 ` regexp completion (was: kill-ring visualization) Stefan Monnier
2010-03-25 17:29 ` kill-ring visualization Juri Linkov
2010-03-26 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-03-26 7:09 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-26 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-27 19:42 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-27 20:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-30 16:07 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-30 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-31 15:04 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-25 16:49 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-18 15:16 ` Drew Adams
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