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From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: overwrite yank
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:52:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873ax2eac9.fsf@debby.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tzpkm500.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> (Joe Bloggs's message of "Mon\, 24 Sep 2007 16\:56\:31 +0100")

Joe Bloggs <joebloggs@nowhere.invalid> writes:

> Hi, I'm sure this is really simple, but I can't find the answer
> anywhere.  How can I overwrite from the copy buffer?  I've tried
> yanking in overwrite-mode but that doesn't work, it just inserts as
> normal, whereas I want to overwrite.  Thanks.

 Please try "delete-selection-mode" but from your description I'm not
 quite sure that this is what you want.

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-25 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-24 15:56 overwrite yank Joe Bloggs
2007-09-25 20:52 ` Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2007-09-25 21:19   ` Drew Adams
2007-09-27  1:00     ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-09-27 15:20       ` Drew Adams
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1396.1190906508.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-27 16:33         ` xraysmalevich
2007-09-28 15:38           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-28 18:55             ` Dieter Wilhelm
     [not found] <mailman.1283.1190755244.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-10-11 21:45 ` Joe Bloggs

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