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

[Juri Linkov]

>> It would be unexpected when yanking the edited entry with M-y
>> would add it to the kill-ring as its opposite command M-w does.
>
> Why unexpected?  If we document that, it wouldn't be unexpected.
>
> Once again, we could decide to either add the edited entry to
> kill-ring or not add it.  If we don't add it, kill-ring-yank-pointer
> should stay at its position, which corresponds to the original entry
> before the editing.  If we do add it, the pointer should be reset to
> the slot where the edited entry is.  Both of these behaviors can be
> easily documented and will be reasonably logical and intuitive,
> because they are basically similar to what the old M-y did.  What we
> do now is much harder to explain and is not intuitive, at least not
> according to my intuition.

For the case of not adding the edited entry to the kill-ring,
now kill-ring-yank-pointer stays at the same position it was
before the editing.

> Does anyone else have an opinion about this?

Regarding the question whether to add the edited entry to the kill-ring,
let's hear more opinions.