Subject: bug#36979: closed (Re: bug#36979: Calendar: mention how to copy date)

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:20:47 -0400

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  > Maybe there should be a generic
  > copy-previous-message - copies last message we saw in the _echo area_ to the kill ring.
  > copy-next-message     - will copy the next message we will see in the _echo area_ to the kill ring.

I think the first one could be useful.  Repeating the command could
get you successively earlier messages, each replacing the one you got
before.

It could display the message again in the echo area as well as putting
it in the kill ring, adding the string "Copied: " to show that the
message was not emitted just now.

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