Re: pasting many times

[Colin S. Miller]

Holger Sparr wrote:
> On 25 Oct 2006, Florian Kaufmann wrote:
>
> > Thank you for the lisp code. I'll try it out.
> >
> > > Why keep the window all the time when you can easily bury it with one
> > > key stroke - `q'?
> > I guess that's just my taste. When I have a task where I have to
> > kill/yank a lot of text I like to have the kill ring displayed all the
> > time. If it isn't displayed all the time, and I want to yank something
> > I killed earlier, I first have to display the buffer, then visually
> > search the item i want to yank. If its diplayed all the time, I
> > visually find the item I want much faster.
>
> Right.
>
> One idea:
>
> (add-hook '<appropriate-hook>   (lambda () (with-current-buffer "*Kill Ring*"
>                                         (browse-kill-ring-update))))
>
> but I have no clue which hook would serve you best. There does not seem
> to be a hook like e.g. `post-kill-hook', or does it?
>
>
> Holger

Nasty hack -
use defadvice on kill-region et all
the advice function will use add-timer
to call browse-kill-ring-update
after a suitable delay (10 to 100ms)

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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