Re: killring as registers

[Robert Pluim]

Thomas Meyer <address@hidden> writes:

> hi,
>
> i'm relativley new to emacs and half way through the manual, and i
> wonder if there is an easy way to access old killring content? i would
> like to use the killring as an "clipboard history" but as far as i
> understand the topic there seems to be no good support, i.e. key binding
> to search the killring and access old content.
>

You can do 'C-h v kill-ring' to show the current contents of the
kill-ring, but itʼs not in a format I find helpful.

> so, is there an extension that lets me access the last 10 killring
> entries as registers 0-9? that would make it a bit better for usage?
>
> or asked the other way around: how do you use the killring and its
> history?

Helm has a nice interface where 'M-y' pops up a buffer with the
kill-ring history.

Regards

Robert