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From: Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Viper: replacing text?
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:40:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxb4niiy.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 058f0626-a0d0-4d45-b8a6-01e948464151@j4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com

Elena <egarrulo@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.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-03 15:40 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 [this message]
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
2009-09-03 17:00     ` Sean Sieger
2009-09-03 17:01     ` Sean Sieger

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