bug#51138: Increase the value of kill-ring-max

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> The value of kill-ring-max was last increased in 1998, when it was
>> doubled from 30 to 60.  See commit bffa4d92e152.
>>
>> Given that RAM is cheaper these days, how about doubling it to 120?

Sounds like a good idea to me.  (Or bigger.)

> A long time ago I customized kill-ring-max to 1024,
> and the only problem with such a big value is that
> it produces too long submenu in "Paste from Kill Menu".
> This is because menu-bar-update-yank-menu
> truncates to the length of kill-ring-max,
> but it should introduce a new variable
> separately customized for the paste menu's size.

Yup.

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