Re: kill-ring visualization

[joakim@verona.se]

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

> Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>
>>> PS: I do not know how to do regexp-style completion, to tell you the
>>> truth.  I.e. I know how to implement the all-completions part of it,
>>> obviously, but I don't know how to then merge the matches into something
>>> suitable for try-completion.  I guess you could just apply
>>> try-completion to the list of matches, but that would only lead to
>>> something useful if the matches share some prefix.
>>
>> Currently a `*' in the completion string acts as the simplest regexp
>> (wildcard), and it does its job pretty well.  Couldn't this be extended
>> to the true regular expressions?
>
> Actually, anything have a source to browse killring.
> I use it always, it's very nice.
> However, you could reuse the code of bookmark-bmenu-search (see
> bookmark.el) as interface for kill ring to mimic what anything does.
> You will narrow down killring list when typing.
>

Nice I didnt know that. I use Anything all the time as well. Could
Anything be included in Emacs?

> See also ioccur.el:
> http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/ioccurThat use same technique.
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Joakim Verona