Subject: Re: bug#29013: 25.3; [wishlist] do not yank whitespace

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:52:34 +0200

On Okt 26 2017, Alex Branham <[email-masked]> wrote:

> It would be nice to have an option so that yank never returns pure whitespace. The current behavior is such that if we have:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> some text here
>
> some text there|
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
>
> with | representing where point is, if you execute C-SPC C-a M-w C-p C-k C-p C-y then you end up with:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
>
> some text here
> some text there
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
>
> but I would like to end up with:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> some text there
> some text here
> some text there
> #+END_EXAMPLE

Just type M-y (yank-pop) to get the next element from the kill ring.
You can also use DEL to delete the empty line without polluting the kill
ring.

Andreas.

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