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bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring
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David De La Harpe Golden |
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bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring |
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Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:47:37 +0100 |
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On 31/08/11 14:01, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> That doesn't sound like a bad idea, although of course it will annoy
> a few users in a few corner cases (e.g. I have M-n and M-p bound in
> smerge-mode). So we might prefer to have it as an option.
I definitely do use various modes with M-n/M-p already bound (such as
slime), they're often some "mode appropriate next/previous". I expect I
do hit them directly after a C-y sometimes too, though I suppose
in principle I could get used to not being able to (and I'm not exactly
a new user who doesn't know how to alter bindings anyway...)
All the same, one alternative would be M-y and M-C-y after C-y for
moving in opposite directions through the kill ring? Just tried it and
it doesn't feel too bad to me, anyway.
(defun yank-pop-inv (&optional arg)
(interactive "*p")
(unless arg (setq arg 1))
(let ((arg (- arg)))
(yank-pop arg)))
(global-set-key (kbd "M-C-y") #'yank-pop-inv)
OTOH, "kill-ring-search" tends to be more useful than uni- or bi-
directional navigation through the kill ring. The author suggests M-C-y
as its default binding:
http://nschum.de/src/emacs/kill-ring-search/
So I'd also consider, given M-y is currently globally bound to a
definition that isn't used except after C-y, putting kill-ring-search
functionality on M-y when _not_ after C-y.
Then also add a kill-ring-search-next to the kill-ring-search prompt as
M-C-y (it already has a kill-ring-search-prev on M-y).
That would also actually sort of fit in with C-y followed by M-y / M-C-y
as suggested earlier above, as then C-y followed by M-y / M-C-y could be
considered to be acting like the new M-y, with a null search string,
inplace display, and implicit exit (while still also acting just like
C-y M-y today!).
And could add M-n and M-p to the new M-y prompt where they'd feel
"right", without having them have an effect after C-y (or with if
preferred, of course).
- bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring, (continued)
- bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/31
- bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring, Deniz Dogan, 2011/08/31
- bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring, Thierry Volpiatto, 2011/08/31
- bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring, Deniz Dogan, 2011/08/31
- bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring, Dani Moncayo, 2011/08/31
- bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring, Deniz Dogan, 2011/08/31
- bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring, Drew Adams, 2011/08/31
- bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring, Dani Moncayo, 2011/08/31
- bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring,
David De La Harpe Golden <=
- bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring, Juri Linkov, 2011/08/31
- bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring, Dani Moncayo, 2011/08/31