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 ?

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