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  1. Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.man.ac.UK!carlisle
  3. From: carlisle@cs.man.ac.UK (David Carlisle)
  4. Subject: killing an empty region
  5. Message-ID: <CARLISLE.92Aug11172921@r8d.cs.man.ac.uk>
  6. Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
  7. Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
  8. Distribution: gnu
  9. Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 16:29:21 GMT
  10. Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
  11. Lines: 26
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  13.  GNU Emacs 18.57.4 of Wed Apr  3 1991 on r8e (berkeley-unix)
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  15. Killing an empty region puts nil on the kill ring.
  16.  
  17. If this is yanked back, it produces an error:
  18.  
  19. Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil
  20.  
  21. To repeat this (with the standard key bindings)
  22.  
  23. C-SPC C-w C-y
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  25. killing an empty region should put either "" or nothing on the ring,
  26. or the yank functions should skip nil entries.
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  29.                            David Carlisle
  30.                                     JANET: carlisle@uk.ac.man.cs
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  32.                                     Computer Science Department
  33.                                     Manchester University
  34.                                     Oxford Road
  35.                                     Manchester
  36.                                     England
  37.                                     M13 9PL
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