Re: Yanking wrong text

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> The comment in the implementation says that this was done because
>> otherwise yank would be a no-op.  So what?  I still need to insert
>> the last copied region even if it happens to be the same as the
>> selected region, and not insert some arbitrary text from the rest
>> of the kill ring.
>
> I do not understand.  Please explain in more details your scenario.
> I don't really understand what you're trying to do and what you're
> getting instead.

I could imagine that for keyboard macros, such cleverness could have
absolutely devastating results.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum