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mention how to see top or middle of each yank-pop

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 25196 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25196: mention how to see top or middle of each yank-pop
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:16:01 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> To the bottom of
> "yank-pop is an interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘simple.el’.
> It is bound to M-y." help text, please add:
>
> yank-pop is nice except when the popped text takes up more than a screen.
>
> In that case the only way to see what is at the top of the text is to
> move the cursor thus breaking the yank-pop sequence.
>
> In such cases one might more or less salvage some text by looking
> directly for it in
> the 'kill-ring', although it is in a different format than the original...

That doesn't really seem applicable for the doc string.

> Anyway the yank-pop docstring should at least mention 'kill-ring'.

I've now done so on the trunk.

> Also in (info "(emacs) Earlier Kills") say how to see the top or middle
> of each yank-pop without breaking the yank-pop sequence.

I don't think there is a way to do that?

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