bug#48478: 28.0.50; yank-from-kill-ring and kill-ring-yank-pointer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: 48478@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 23:24:24 +0300
> 
> >> This is an unfinished feature, i.e. currently yank-from-kill-ring
> >> simply has no special handling of kill-ring-yank-pointer.
> >> When I tried to add it, I noticed that it has many possible
> >> variants of implementation, so I stuck with analysis paralysis.
> >
> > Why do we need variants? why not simply do the same as M-y does after
> > C-y or M-y?  After all, from the user's POV it's the same command, so
> > why not provide a consistent behavior?
> 
> No one objected until now, so there are users who prefer the current behavior.

Well, I objected the first time I used this feature after learning
about it.  The reason is that what M-y does after C-y is described in
the manual, so I wanted to see what this new feature does, and was
puzzled by what it did.

> But I don't disagree with changing the default to use kill-ring-yank-pointer.

Let's please do that, TIA.