empty item in kill ring?

[Alex Rice]

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From: Alex Rice <address@hidden>
Date: Sun Dec 15, 2002  3:49:49  PM America/Denver
To: Larry Denenberg <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
Subject: Re: Different semantics for yank-pop??
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On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 12:13  PM, Larry Denenberg wrote:


I'm running Mac OS X and picked up a pre-built Emacs from Mindlube, not 
an
official released version.

When I run emacs with "emacs --nw" from a Terminal window, yank-pop 
works
just like I expect it to.  But when I invoke the Emacs application from 
the
finder (like other OS X applications) things are screwy.  The first 
yank-pop
of a sequence seems to yank the top of the kill ring (i.e., the same 
text
yanked by the immediately preceding C-y) rather than the previous entry.
So, for example, C-k C-y M-y is always a no-op, whereas I expect it to
replace the rest of the line with the previous kill.

I don't know quite where to ask about this since the provenance of my 
Emacs
is so informal.  Any help would be appreciated.

Hello, When doing C-k C-y M-y, hit M-y again and you should see the 
normal behavior. For some reason the first M-y has no effect, or 
contains the first entry in the kill ring, as you say. However, 
subsequent M-y work as expected. At least that's what I'm seeing. I'm 
filing bug report about the empty yank item. You can do this too if you 
find anything else (M-x report-emacs-bug).

Also make sure to notice the Menu item Edit | Select and Paste. It 
shows the current contents of your kill ring. So you can tell the kill 
ring is at least doing it's job.

Hope this helps,

//     Alex Rice <address@hidden>
//     Mindlube Software
//     http://mindlube.com





In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.2)
 of 2002-11-27 on darkstar.local.
configured using `configure '--with-carbon' '--without-x''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Recent input:
<scroll-bar-movement> <scroll-bar-movement> <scroll-bar-movement>
<scroll-bar-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1>
C-c C-c y C-x k <return> C-x k <return> y ESC x r e
p o r t - e m TAB <return>

Recent messages:
yank-pop: Previous command was not a yank
Mark set [3 times]
Loading emacsbug...done
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Auto-saving...done
Send this bug report to the Emacs maintainers? (y or n)
Sending...done
Buffer fu modified; kill anyway? (y or n)