From: Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Viper: replacing text?
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:58:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <248d0c54-d55a-4aa6-88d7-aa09fc134f05@x37g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5946.1251992506.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On 3 Set, 15:40, Sean Sieger <sean.sie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> That is: I kill (or copy) a word, then travel to another word and I'd
> like to replace the latter with the former. Currently I paste the
> first word, move a character to the right and kill the second word,
> but I don't think that's the faster way to do it.
>
> You mean you can't
> M-d
> C-f (or wherever)
> M-d
> C-u 2 C-y
> in Viper?
>
> With all due respect, why do people use GNU/Emacs to imitate Vi? I've
> never understood it. The original post seems to point to how Viper
> diminishes the power of the Emacs environment.
Oh, no! I just prefer modal editing.
Thank you for posting the command sequence, I'll bind it to an
available Viper mode sequence.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-03 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-03 14:11 Viper: replacing text? Elena
2009-09-03 15:05 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.5945.1251990364.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-03 15:21 ` Elena
2009-09-03 15:40 ` Sean Sieger
2009-09-03 16:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-03 16:38 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.5955.1251995918.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-03 19:38 ` Elena
2009-09-03 21:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-04 1:19 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.5983.1252027190.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-04 7:58 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-09-04 10:41 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.5974.1252014851.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-03 22:51 ` Elena
2009-09-04 8:02 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-09-04 8:31 ` Elena
[not found] ` <mailman.5946.1251992506.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-03 15:58 ` Elena [this message]
2009-09-03 17:00 ` Sean Sieger
2009-09-03 17:01 ` Sean Sieger
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