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Re: Opening file with is in killring


From: Decebal
Subject: Re: Opening file with is in killring
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 13:20:31 -0700 (PDT)
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On Nov 1, 5:45 pm, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > But this puts the contents of the minibuffer in the killring. :-{
>
> Yes, and? ;-)

I did not understand the use of the kill-ring.


> > I understood that with m-y I should get the previous entry, but when I
> > use that I get: Previous command was not a yank
>
> Correct. `C-y' yanks the head of the kill-ring. `M-y' replaces that insertion
> with the previous kill-ring entry. `C-y' is a one-time thing; you can repeat
> `M-y' to move through the ring until you get to the kill you want.

Now I do. :-D


> [FWIW, outside of the minibuffer, I bind an Icicles multi-command to `C-- 
> C-y'.
> It lets you yank any items from the kill-ring using completion, without 
> needing
> to cycle through them. You can also cycle if you like, but you need not go
> through all of them one by one. And you can sort them in various ways, which
> helps when cycling. And you can hit `S-delete' to remove selected candidates
> from the kill-ring. And you can filter completion matches using multiple
> patterns (progressive completion), to quickly get to what you want.]

That looks also like something to investigate.


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