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
next prev parent 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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