Community
Participate
Working Groups
Hi, is there a possibility to add to the Eclipse editor the kill-ring functionality from emacs. Essentially this work like this: - The clipboard keeps a history of the strings copied to it via cut and copy operations. - Each time you paste something, the last entry of the clipboard is pasted in - with the M-y (perhaps M-v for non emacs keybindings) you can go backwards in the clipboard history - the currently pasted text gets overwritten with the older text each time you press M-y thomas
I once did an implementation for swing by replacing the standard text actions for the JTextComponents. The implementation can be found here: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xnap/xnap3/src/org/xnap/gui/util/EmacsKeyBindings.java?rev=1.4&view=auto I think the following things are needed: A global kill-ring list, with a similar function as the clipboard. The list has to be updated on each cut/copy/kill line/kill word and paste on paste too because the entry that was pasted last has to be moved to the beginning of the ring The start and end position of the last paste so that this text can be replaced by ensuing yank-pop calls. I'd be happy to provide help since I sorely miss this feature too. Regards, Felix Berger
There are currently no plans to work on this. However, if you provide a patch and test cases we will be happy to review and release it if it is of high quality.
This is in R3.1 (Word Completion, Alt+/
(In reply to comment #3) > This is in R3.1 (Word Completion, Alt+/ The part (Word Completion, Alt+/) is what confuses me a little. kill-ring means, all text parts that are cut(killed) are stored in a ring-list and can be accessed when pasting text later on. In Emacs you first paste the last cut text using Ctrl-y (the command is called yank) and if that's not the text you wanted to paste you (repeatedly) press Alt-y or Meta-y (yank-pop) to cycle through the kill-ring.
Closed wrong bug.
This behavior is now available in the Emacs+ plugin. See: http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=viewlink&cid=1442 The relevant portion from the doc reads: Kill Ring Behavior - The kill ring expands the ability to retrieve killed text beyond the most recent kill/copy. The kill ring remembers recent line, region and word deletions (adjacent word deletions - forward or back - are collected into a single entry) as well as balanced expression (S-expression) deletions. By default, word deletions are not copied to the system clipboard; but balanced expression deletions are. The length of the kill ring defaults to 30 entries. These and other kill ring behaviors can be modified on the preferences page. * Yank (Ctrl-Y): Insert the last stretch of killed text * Yank-Pop (Alt-Y) or (ESC-Y): Replace a just-yanked stretch of killed text with a different stretch * Rotate Yank Pointer (Ctrl-Alt-Y): Rotate the yank pointer in the kill ring
*** Bug 119578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
