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  1. Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!traffic.den.mmc.com!kevin
  3. From: kevin@traffic.den.mmc.com (Kevin Rodgers)
  4. Subject: Re: killing an empty region
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug13.155316.3521@den.mmc.com>
  6. Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
  7. Organization: Martin Marietta Western Internal Systems, Technical Operations
  8. References: <CARLISLE.92Aug11172921@r8d.cs.man.ac.uk>
  9. Distribution: gnu
  10. Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:53:16 GMT
  11. Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
  12. Lines: 45
  13.  
  14. In article <CARLISLE.92Aug11172921@r8d.cs.man.ac.uk> carlisle@cs.man.ac.UK (David Carlisle) writes:
  15. > GNU Emacs 18.57.4 of Wed Apr  3 1991 on r8e (berkeley-unix)
  16. >
  17. >Killing an empty region puts nil on the kill ring.
  18. >
  19. >If this is yanked back, it produces an error:
  20. >
  21. >Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil
  22. >
  23. >To repeat this (with the standard key bindings)
  24. >
  25. >C-SPC C-w C-y
  26.  
  27. I can't verify this problem in 18.58.
  28.  
  29. >killing an empty region should put either "" or nothing on the ring,
  30. >or the yank functions should skip nil entries.
  31.  
  32. In 18.58, C-SPC C-w C-h f kill-ring indicates the former is implemented:
  33.  
  34. kill-ring's value is ("" ">
  35. >--
  36. >                           David Carlisle
  37. >                                    JANET: carlisle@uk.ac.man.cs
  38. >
  39. >                                    Computer Science Department
  40. >                                    Manchester University
  41. >                                    Oxford Road
  42. >                                    Manchester
  43. >                                    England
  44. >                                    M13 9PL
  45. >
  46.  
  47.  
  48. " ">")
  49.  
  50. Documentation:
  51. List of killed text sequences.
  52. -- 
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