Subject: Re: bug#42430: 26.3; Document `ring-next' and `ring-previous' in (elisp) Rings

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:55:37 +0300

> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 19:32:52 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> 
> See this question:
> 
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/59726/105
> 
> As the asker notes, the doc refers to ring "rotation", but it says
> nothing about how to rotate the ring (cycle to the next/previous
> element.

The manual says:

     For yanking, one entry in the kill ring is designated the front of
  the ring.  Some yank commands rotate the ring by designating a different
  element as the front.  But this virtual rotation doesn’t change the list
  itself—the most recent entry always comes first in the list.

That's all.  I don't see any reason to expand this description of a
"virtual rotation", since that would require bringing many internal
details into the ELisp manual, with no apparent gain.

So I'm closing this bug.