From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: killring as registers Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 11:27:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: charles@aurox.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538299369 863 195.159.176.226 (30 Sep 2018 09:22:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 09:22:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thomas Meyer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 30 11:22:45 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g6Xw5-00007v-4K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 11:22:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54628 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g6XyB-000619-IV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 05:24:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54024) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g6Xxc-00060r-GN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 05:24:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g6Xxb-0002sO-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 05:24:20 -0400 Original-Received: from sinyavsky.aurox.ch ([2a03:2040:2:1b::1]:40000) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g6Xxb-0002rs-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 05:24:19 -0400 Original-Received: from sinyavsky.aurox.ch (sinyavsky.aurox.ch [127.0.0.1]) by sinyavsky.aurox.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC612287C for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 09:28:13 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: sinyavsky.aurox.ch (amavisd-new); dkim=pass reason="pass (just generated, assumed good)" header.d=aurox.ch DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=aurox.ch; h= references:reply-to:subject:subject:in-reply-to:to:from:from :message-id:date:date; s=dkim; t=1538299692; x=1539163693; bh=E9 6oQmogCFRYI5df0FmNUKigKxCM2oHC+fdfDbo7V0I=; b=JRBYcQsZ8/+L5Is2jb W9/D1AoDlk8QqJFSi5HkE81nEhD+mnV9n2LT/YwxZYcYo2ihlEhVCLWLIFKM4zVr 6p7E0AjJh7PdKGQ9ykHY1grrv9Jz1i6LnghITSCUD5S5BFxF0MvAB1X7KCkL2xMv hv2S2p80sRRlVSGLbS7sACVXY= X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at test.virtualizor.com Original-Received: from sinyavsky.aurox.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by sinyavsky.aurox.ch (sinyavsky.aurox.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id Q47N3Mtl2mF7 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 09:28:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from gray (unknown [IPv6:2a02:1205:c693:2d60:c62c:3ff:fe30:b864]) by sinyavsky.aurox.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 20B2B2285B; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 09:28:11 +0000 (UTC) In-reply-to: (message from Thomas Meyer on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 14:07:52 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a03:2040:2:1b::1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230164 Archived-At: > From: Thomas Meyer > Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 14:07:52 +0200 > > hi, > > i'm relativley new to emacs and half way through the manual, and i > wonder if there is an easy way to access old killring content? i would > like to use the killring as an "clipboard history" but as far as i > understand the topic there seems to be no good support, i.e. key binding > to search the killring and access old content. > > so, is there an extension that lets me access the last 10 killring > entries as registers 0-9? that would make it a bit better for usage? > > or asked the other way around: how do you use the killring and its > history? > > with kind regards > thomas Previous kills are visible on the "Edit" menu, under "Select and Paste" (for NS builds), or "Paste from Kill Menu" (for other builds). Using "text-mode menu", you can also see these kills via: M-` e s, for NS builds and for other builds, via the equivalent keys, possibly M-` e P.