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24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring

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Message #20 received at 9406 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: Deniz Dogan <deniz <at> dogan.se>
Cc: 9406 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9406: 24.0.50; Use M-p/M-n to navigate through the kill ring
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:48:35 +0200

Hi Deniz,

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 20:13, Deniz Dogan <deniz <at> dogan.se> wrote:
> I strongly oppose it.  I've used M-n and M-p for forward-paragraph and
> backward-paragraph for years and I'm sure many other people use them for
> other things too.  Please, leave M-n and M-p for other things than browsing
> the kill ring in this manner.

You (and many others) could still use M-n and M-p for whatever you
want, because my proposal would only affect that keys *just after
typing C-y, and before doing anything else*.

> There is already many different ways to do
> this, all on the Emacs Wiki.[1]

I'm interested in improving the standard GNU Emacs, and the current
way of navigating through the kill ring is not very convenient, as I
explained.  My proposal would greatly improve it without harming
anyone (IMO).

-- 
Dani Moncayo

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