More than one kill-ring in emacs

Question

Is it possible, in emacs, create more than one kill ring? For example, I would like to create my alternative copy-paste commands with a secondary kill-ring in order to insert in it special portions of text, without losing the built-in kill-ring.

Answer 1

Yes. Download library select-sel.el. If you use it in connection with either library browse-kill-ring+.el or Icicles then you can use both the kill-ring and a ring of the secondary selections.

With Icicles you can, in addition, use M-y at top level to choose a selection from either ring using completion against the ring entries. During this completion you can:

• Use S-delete to delete entries from the current ring
• Use C-, to sort the candidates to yank in different ways
• Use C-S-return to copy a completion candidate to the other selection ring

And with a prefix arg you can switch to completing candidates from the other ring.

Some doc:

• Library Second Sel
• Library Browse Kill Ring Plus
• Library Icicles (code))