Re: kill ring menu

[Miles Bader]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I've always thought it would be handy if it would do
> the equivalent of `C-w C-y M-y' in that situation.
> 
> This would be extremely annoying if you were not recently doing yanking.
> There is always a region, after all.  Some unpredictable amount of text,
> perhaps large, would be replaced.  If you did not notice, the results
> would be really bad.

Ah -- I use transient-mark-mode, which makes the dynamics of such things
different.  I think with TMM active, it would be useful behavior, but I
can see that it would probably suck if TMM wasn't active...  Would this
make sense as `transient-mark-mode only' behavior?

BTW, I'm pretty sure I've used an emacs-like editor that did this, and
found it quite handy (the command bound to M-y was something like
`replace region' and behaved similarly to Emacs' M-y when repeated),
though I can't confidently remember which one; maybe it was the ATK `ez'
editor, which basically always used behavior similar to
transient-mark-mode.

-Miles
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