GNU bug report logs - #52543
Add option to eliminate all duplications from the kill ring

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Reported by: ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:50:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>, 52543 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52543: Add option to eliminate all duplications from the kill ring
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 19:03:49 +0200

>> There is  kill-do-not-save-duplicates, but it deletes
>> only subsequent duplicates.
>>
>> There should be an other variable which prevents any duplicates
>> even if there are, say,  10 or 20 items between them.
>>
>> I expected kill-do-not-save-duplicates to do that, that variable
>> seems misnamed. It should be kill-do-not-save-subsequent-duplicates
>> instead.
>
> This has previously been discussed, and we decided to not alter how this
> works, because it'd be too surprising.  (And there are options to filter
> the kill ring that users that want that can use.)  So I'm closing this
> bug report.

Indeed:

  (setq kill-transform-function (lambda (s) (unless (member s kill-ring) s)))
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