bug#48478: 28.0.50; yank-from-kill-ring and kill-ring-yank-pointer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: 48478@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:32:54 +0300
> 
> >> I tried in 'emacs -Q', and 'M-y M-p' doesn't insert the last killed item
> >> into the minibuffer.
> >
> > It does here, so I guess we are doing something differently.  Can you
> > show a complete recipe, starting from "emacs -Q"?
> 
> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. select the word "This" and type M-w
> 2. select the word "buffer" and type M-w
> 3. type M-y M-p
> 
> The minibuffer looks like:
> 
>   Yank from kill-ring: This
> 
> but should be
> 
>   Yank from kill-ring: buffer

So you don't like that M-p yields "This" and M-n yield "buffer" in
this case?  Why not?  IOW, why did you expect M-p to yield "buffer"?
This is M-y, not C-y.