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Warn: you have already yanked the same thing 2 (3, 4...) times in a row

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Message #8 received at 27745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 27745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27745: Warn: you have already yanked the same thing 2 (3,
 4...) times in a row
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:49:16 +0200

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

> $ seq 99 > a
> $ emacs a
>  C-x h [mark-whole-buffer]
>  C-w [kill-region]
>  C-y [yank]
>  C-y [yank]
>  C-y [yank]
>  C-y [yank]
>  C-y [yank]
>  C-y [yank]
>  C-y [yank]
>
> So maybe print:
>   Warning: you have already yanked the same thing 2 (3,4...) times in a row.
> if he yanks the exact same thing more than once.

Yanking the same thing several times is a perfectly normal thing to do,
so I think it would be a disservice for Emacs to warn about this.  Closing.

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