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Article #699Re: killing an empty region
From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:53
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:53
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In article <CARLISLE.92Aug11172921@r8d.cs.man.ac.uk> carlisle@cs.man.ac.UK (David Carlisle) writes:
> GNU Emacs 18.57.4 of Wed Apr 3 1991 on r8e (berkeley-unix)
>
>Killing an empty region puts nil on the kill ring.
>
>If this is yanked back, it produces an error:
>
>Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil
>
>To repeat this (with the standard key bindings)
>
>C-SPC C-w C-y
I can't verify this problem in 18.58.
>killing an empty region should put either "" or nothing on the ring,
>or the yank functions should skip nil entries.
In 18.58, C-SPC C-w C-h f kill-ring indicates the former is implemented:
kill-ring's value is ("" ">
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>
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>
" ">")
Documentation:
List of killed text sequences.
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!traffic.den.mmc.com!kevin From: kevin@traffic.den.mmc.com (Kevin Rodgers) Subject: Re: killing an empty region Message-ID: <1992Aug13.155316.3521@den.mmc.com> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: Martin Marietta Western Internal Systems, Technical Operations References: <CARLISLE.92Aug11172921@r8d.cs.man.ac.uk> Distribution: gnu Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:53:16 GMT Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 45