Re: kill-ring visualization

[Leo]

On 2010-03-18 14:06 +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I find browse-kill-ring very convenient.
>> It cleverly advices m-y so if its run before any preceding yank, it
>> shows the contents of the kill-ring and the user can select one entry to
>> be yanked.
>> Could something like this be included in Emacs-24? I feel it would be
>> useful to newcomers (and old-timers with bad short-term memory like me)
>
> I think it's indeed a very nice feature.  I end up not using it much,
> but at least it seems like a natural use for M-y.
>
> OTOH the few times I've used it I wished it use a form of completion.
> Basically, I'd like it to use an interface similar to completing-read,
> except maybe that it'd bring up the *Completions* buffer right away (and
> that the completion would use a substring search).
>
> So I think if we want to enable such a feature by default, it'd need to
> be better integrated with the completion code.

I think at least it should be built on top of ewoc. It seems like a
natural choice.

I have been using b-k-r for around 2 years, at least keeping it around.
But unfortunately when I need it, it refuses to insert the text from
time to time, which is really annoying. So I wrote something really
simple for myself and I tried to make it work with the existing kill
yank facility in Emacs. I think new features can be easily added.

I posted the code here: http://paste.lisp.org/display/96565

>         Stefan

Cheers,
Leo