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Re: pasting many times
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Dieter Wilhelm |
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Re: pasting many times |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:39:40 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
...
>>>> And when we are at it. I do not understand why M-y depends on C-y at
>>>> all, lets just take the second entry of kill-ring by default and third
>>>> and fourth and so on?
>>>
> I'd start M-y with the first entry of the kill-ring. It would
> probably make M-y more popular than C-y, but people might learn to
> live with that. It would probably also make sense to have C-y accept
> a multiplier argument (probably more expected) while letting M-y
> accept a stack pointer argument.
It might be more consistent with Emacs conventions but I suggest this
because we are getting more functionality and yet the users is getting
a smoother transition from the previous definition.
Are you concerned because of the default interactive argument which is
1? Hmm, couldn't we apply the c counting convention for the kill
ring: 0 is the current kill (the first entry) 1 the previous one and
so on? It is just a matter of the proper documentation, isn't it?
>
> So if you were certain to need only the most recent kill, you'd use
> C-y, and if you _might_ want a different kill, you'd use M-y.
Exactly, so far I can only discern an extension of functionality and
no disadvantages compared to the current handling of C-y and M-y.
Let's see what happens now in Baurzhan's case:
You press the C-key for the interactive arguments (they work with C-
as well with M-) then 59 and then y. This means 4 key presses
compared to vim's 5 (ESC 59p i). (OK, this is the worst case for vim
but I guess statistically it'd be a draw between the two editors 8-)
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
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