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From: macrakis@osf.fr (Stavros Macrakis)
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Subject: Re: little kill-region hack
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Date: 4 Sep 90 01:28:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: gaynor@sparky.rutgers.edu's message of 30 Aug 90 10:25:41 GMT

Undo presumably doesn't handle very large killed regions for reasons
of efficiency.  But strings with these regions' contents are created
for the kill ring; it might be possible to integrate the two
mechanisms....  (pointers from undo records to strings)

This is probably messy, though, for several reasons: 1) the kill ring
is managed in Lisp, while undo records are managed in C; 2) the
semantics of the kill ring are complicated (copy-as-kill, etc.).

Any volunteers to write the code?