Timeline for how can I get Emacs kill-ring to behave like a simple clipboard buffer?
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| Jul 31, 2020 at 15:22 | answer | added | algn2 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 18:58 | vote | accept | m33lky | ||
| Apr 1, 2017 at 20:09 | comment | added | lawlist |
I see that no one has mentioned the browse-kill-ring library emacswiki.org/emacs/BrowseKillRing You may enjoy taking a look it it as it will demystify what is contained in the kill-ring, and present you with a nice buffer and overlay options to insert previous kills.
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| Apr 1, 2017 at 12:46 | answer | added | glucas | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 1, 2017 at 9:42 | answer | added | phils | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 1, 2017 at 5:42 | history | edited | m33lky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 22:32 | comment | added | glucas |
Is there some actual scenario where the kill ring is causing you problems? It seems to me that unless you explicitly invoke yank-pop to access older entries in the kill ring, it should already behave like a 'simple clipboard': the various kill commands save an entry and yank restores it.
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 21:02 | comment | added | Tianxiang Xiong |
Also consider using Helm's helm-show-kill-ring, which visually presents kill ring elements and allows searching through elements.
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:40 | history | edited | m33lky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:32 | comment | added | wasamasa |
Um, you do lose something, the quoted scenario explains what exactly. undo-tree won't help you with a clobbered clipboard, whatever has been there is permanently gone. With the kill-ring, you can just press M-y after C-y and retrieve it again.
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:29 | history | edited | m33lky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:22 | comment | added | Tianxiang Xiong |
You can control the size of the kill ring with the kill-ring-max customizable variable. Does setting it to 1 replicate the "simple clipboard" you want?
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:22 | answer | added | stevoooo | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:20 | comment | added | m33lky | @Dan You misunderstood me. I'm not looking for a linear undo/redo at this point. I find it confusing that the kill-ring contains multiple items compared to a simple clipboard buffer. | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:19 | history | edited | m33lky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:08 | comment | added | Dan♦ |
I edited the question to try to clarify. I should warn, though, that it's still not 100% clear what you want to do, so it might get closed again for being unclear. I think there might be some confusion about what the kill-ring is and does, and the same for undo-tree. I'd suggest reading up on them (see the links to get you started), and then see if it helps in posing the question.
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:06 | history | reopened | Dan♦ | ||
| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:06 | history | edited | Dan♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:00 | comment | added | m33lky |
@Dan I've narrowed down the question. I left the undo-tree reference, because that's how I see it relate to the problem at hand.
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 19:57 | history | edited | m33lky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 19:53 | comment | added | Dan♦ |
Please edit that into your post. However, let me suggest you narrow the question down to the part about "can I get Emacs to do undo/redo the same as in other programs" and leave out the other parts about the kill-ring and undo-tree. We try to keep the questions as discrete as possible here, and you're more likely to get an answer for a narrow and well-defined question than a broad and open-ended one.
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 19:48 | comment | added | m33lky | @Dan Exactly, I'm used to clipboard buffer in Windows/Ubuntu. Can I have that instead of the kill-ring? How is it related to undo-tree, e.g. what is undo-tree based on internally? I'm assuming that undo-tree is separate from the kill-ring. However, when it comes to editing workflows it seems that undo-tree is sufficient: it will help me avoid losing work. So, I don't need the complicated kill-ring. | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 19:40 | history | closed |
Drew wasamasa Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 19:39 | comment | added | Dan♦ |
Let me suggest that you edit your question again to lay out a) how you see a "simple clipboard buffer" working, b) how the kill-ring and/or the undo-tree differ from what you expect. It's not obvious yet what you're trying to do here when you say you want to "simplify" the kill-ring. Do you mean you want Emacs to behave the same as other programs in how it handles undo/redo?
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 19:37 | history | edited | Dan♦ |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 19:26 | comment | added | m33lky | I have edited my question. | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 19:25 | history | edited | m33lky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 18:26 | comment | added | Stefan | What do you mean by "simplify the kill-ring"? How would you do it, and what would you expect to gain from it? | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 18:13 | comment | added | wasamasa |
undo-tree replaces the (linear) undo system of a buffer with a tree, the kill ring is a separate thing that's always of linear nature and holds your last kills. This question doesn't make any sense.
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:38 | comment | added | Drew | The question is not very clear. What do you mean by "should" you? What behavior are you looking for? What's the real question? | |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:07 | history | asked | m33lky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |