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Re: Various simple.el patches


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Various simple.el patches
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:45:39 -0400

> > 1 - When killing the same thing over and over again, don't fill
> >     the kill-ring unnecessarily.
> 
> Don't do this.  It will unexpectedly break moving stuff like:
> 
>    foo
>    bar
>    bar
>    baz
> 
> using kill (esp with kill-whole-line t) and subsequent yank.

No, this is handled somewhere else.  The only negative effect
it has (AFAIK) is if you do C-k C-y C-k C-k C-k C-k on the above
example: The second C-k overwrites the data from the first
so if you do C-y M-y you won't get "foo" but you'll get
whatever was on the kill-ring before.


        Stefan





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