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Re: yank-pop error unnecessary and annoying
From: |
Geoff Gole |
Subject: |
Re: yank-pop error unnecessary and annoying |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:52:46 +0800 |
> I am not sure this is a good idea -- it might lead to doing things
> that the users don't expect. This is the sort of thing that we
> ought to ask a lot of people to try, so they can tell us whether
> it is useful or confusing.
I'll see if I can convince some people to try it.
> But usually, what people have in mind when they do a spurious yank-pop
> is "delete the stretch of text that I most recently yanked, and replace
> it with the next item in the kill ring". At least, that's what
> frequently happens to me, usually when I inadvertently do some cursor
> motion after yanking.
Hmm, usually when I M-y by mistake I simply want some text from some
distance down in the kill-ring but forgot that I need to C-y first. In
this case replacing the previous, probably unrelated yank would be
quite annoying.