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bug#25196: mention how to see top or middle of each yank-pop
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#25196: mention how to see top or middle of each yank-pop |
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Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:16:01 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> To the bottom of
> "yank-pop is an interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘simple.el’.
> It is bound to M-y." help text, please add:
>
> yank-pop is nice except when the popped text takes up more than a screen.
>
> In that case the only way to see what is at the top of the text is to
> move the cursor thus breaking the yank-pop sequence.
>
> In such cases one might more or less salvage some text by looking
> directly for it in
> the 'kill-ring', although it is in a different format than the original...
That doesn't really seem applicable for the doc string.
> Anyway the yank-pop docstring should at least mention 'kill-ring'.
I've now done so on the trunk.
> Also in (info "(emacs) Earlier Kills") say how to see the top or middle
> of each yank-pop without breaking the yank-pop sequence.
I don't think there is a way to do that?
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