From: "Daniel" <hanmoai@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Erase Region and paste in once?
Date: 4 Apr 2007 09:24:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175703860.978256.64100@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vegcie8e.fsf@Sun.COM>
On Apr 4, 4:13 am, Alexander Zhukov <z...@yandex.ru> wrote:
> >>>>> Samuel Karl Peterson (SKP) writes:
>
> SKP> "Daniel" <hanm...@gmail.com> on 3 Apr 2007 18:33:47 -0700 didst
> SKP> step forth and proclaim thus:
>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> In general editors, I do copy (ctrl-c) some text in firefox and make
> >> a region in a editor where I want to replace and paste(ctrl-v) it.
> >>
> >> I tried to do in emacs, but I can't find a way to overwrite a
> >> certain region by doing yank at one time.
> >>
> >> Is it possible to do it in emacs?
>
> SKP> Anything's possible in Emacs ;)
>
> SKP> Behold my lisp snippet:
>
> SKP> (defun sams-zap-yank (beg end) (interactive "r") (delete-region
> SKP> beg end) (yank))
>
> SKP> Assign it to a key such as:
>
> SKP> (global-set-key "\C-cv" 'sams-zap-yank)
>
> SKP> Who knows, Emacs may have already had this functionality. I may
> SKP> have just reinvented the wheel, but eh, it was a small wheel.
>
> I use this:
>
> (delete-selection-mode 1)
>
> Here is description:
>
> delete-selection-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> `delsel.el'. (delete-selection-mode &optional arg)
>
> Toggle Delete Selection mode.
> With prefix arg, turn Delete Selection mode on if and only if arg is
> positive.
>
> When Delete Selection mode is enabled, Transient Mark mode is also
> enabled and typed text replaces the selection if the selection is
> active. Otherwise, typed text is just inserted at point regardless of
> any selection.
>
> --
> Alexander Zhukov
Thank you, Alexander Zhukov,
I didn't even know the mode. Great Help.
Thank you and other guys. I could know emacs do lot of things. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-04 1:33 Erase Region and paste in once? Daniel
2007-04-04 3:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-04 3:18 ` Matthew Flaschen
[not found] ` <mailman.1733.1175656317.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-04 4:37 ` Daniel
2007-04-04 10:28 ` cmr.Pent
2007-04-04 9:37 ` Samuel Karl Peterson
2007-04-04 11:13 ` Alexander Zhukov
2007-04-04 16:24 ` Daniel [this message]
2007-04-04 16:41 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-04 17:52 ` Matthew Flaschen
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