Strange yank behaviour

Strange yank behaviour

[Torsten Bronger]

Halloechen!

Sometimes, when I want to insert something with C-y, I don't get
the last bust the *second* last think that I've killed.  With M-y I
can switch to the correct one.

How can I switch off this behaviour?  I use GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2.

Thank you!

Tschoe,
Torsten.

-- 
Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus

Strange yank behaviour

[Torsten Bronger]

Halloechen!

Sometimes, when I want to insert something with C-y, I don't get the
last but the *second* last snippet that I've killed.  With M-y I can
switch to the correct one.  It doesn't happen always, and I don't
know under which conditions.

How can I switch off this behaviour?  I use GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2.

Thank you!

Tschoe,
Torsten.

-- 
Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus

Re: Strange yank behaviour

[Barry Margolin]

In article <m3isc9xsvj.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de>,
 Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> Halloechen!
> 
> Sometimes, when I want to insert something with C-y, I don't get the
> last but the *second* last snippet that I've killed.  With M-y I can
> switch to the correct one.  It doesn't happen always, and I don't
> know under which conditions.
> 
> How can I switch off this behaviour?  I use GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2.

It should never happen in the first place.  Are you sure you're not 
giving a numeric argument to C-y?  M-2 C-y will yank the 2nd item on the 
killing ring, M-3 C-y will yank the 3rd, and so on.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: Strange yank behaviour

[Michael Slass]

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

>Halloechen!
>
>Sometimes, when I want to insert something with C-y, I don't get
>the last bust the *second* last think that I've killed.  With M-y I
>can switch to the correct one.
>
>How can I switch off this behaviour?  I use GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2.
>

Not exact, but related...
check out browse-kill-ring.el (google)
-- 
Mike Slass

Re: Strange yank behaviour

[Torsten Bronger]

Halloechen!

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> In article <m3isc9xsvj.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de>,
>  Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
>> Sometimes, when I want to insert something with C-y, I don't get
>> the last but the *second* last snippet that I've killed.  With
>> M-y I can switch to the correct one.  It doesn't happen always,
>> and I don't know under which conditions.
>> 
>> How can I switch off this behaviour?  I use GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2.
>
> It should never happen in the first place.  Are you sure you're
> not giving a numeric argument to C-y?

Yes.  Since I've failed to make it reproducible so far, I assume
that it happens due to an unstable CVS version that I got.  My Emacs
seems to switch into this strange yank mode approximately twice per
week and stays there until restarted, but sometimes it recovers
earlier.  Yes, I do know how odd this sounds.  :-/

Anyway, I think I can live with it until the next release.

Tschoe,
Torsten.

-- 
Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus

Re: Strange yank behaviour

[David Kastrup]

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> Halloechen!
> 
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > In article <m3isc9xsvj.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de>,
> >  Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Sometimes, when I want to insert something with C-y, I don't get
> >> the last but the *second* last snippet that I've killed.  With
> >> M-y I can switch to the correct one.  It doesn't happen always,
> >> and I don't know under which conditions.
> >> 
> >> How can I switch off this behaviour?  I use GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2.
> >
> > It should never happen in the first place.  Are you sure you're
> > not giving a numeric argument to C-y?
> 
> Yes.  Since I've failed to make it reproducible so far, I assume
> that it happens due to an unstable CVS version that I got.  My Emacs
> seems to switch into this strange yank mode approximately twice per
> week and stays there until restarted, but sometimes it recovers
> earlier.  Yes, I do know how odd this sounds.  :-/

gcc-3.4 ?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Strange yank behaviour

[Torsten Bronger]

Halloechen!

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>
>> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>> 
>>> In article <m3isc9xsvj.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de>,
>>>  Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sometimes, when I want to insert something with C-y, I don't
>>>> get the last but the *second* last snippet that I've killed.
>>>> With M-y I can switch to the correct one.  It doesn't happen
>>>> always, and I don't know under which conditions.
>>>> 
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> [...]
>> 
>> [...]  Since I've failed to make it reproducible so far, I assume
>> that it happens due to an unstable CVS version that I got.  My
>> Emacs seems to switch into this strange yank mode approximately
>> twice per week and stays there until restarted, but sometimes it
>> recovers earlier.  Yes, I do know how odd this sounds.  :-/
>
> gcc-3.4 ?

I compiled Emacs with gcc 3.3.1.

Tschoe,
Torsten.

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