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Add option to eliminate all duplications from the kill ring

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 52543 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52543: Add option to eliminate all duplications from the kill ring
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 13:04:42 +0100

ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> 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.

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