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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.

  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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