From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: A question regarding cut and paste.
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 08:15:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <841xyqgpe0.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6611.1053646406.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Robin Singh" <nsnanda@hotmail.com> writes:
> Hello All,
> I am a naïve email user. In other windows editors, I can
> 1. Select text(t1) from somewhere and copy it .
> 2. Go somewhere else and and select some other text(t2) and paste
> t1. So t2 will be replaced by t1.
The Emacs way to do it is to use C-w to cut t2, then use C-y to
yank. This will yank t2 which is not what you wanted. But then you
can use M-y which will replace t2 with t1. (Further M-y will
continue to replace the stuff you last yanked.)
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2003-05-23 1:49 ` A question regarding cut and paste Benjamin Rutt
2003-05-23 6:15 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-05-22 23:29 Robin Singh
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