From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: overwrite yank
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:20:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICCECOEAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87myv8dirw.fsf@debby.local.net>
> I thought it implicit that he wanted to overwrite some *selection*
> with the stuff from the kill ring. So you think he wants for example
> yanking a line of text and this same line does overwrite the line
> where the cursor is (without a region)?
Yes, that was my interpretation. But I've been wrong before. ;-)
That would seem to be useful: if you can type over existing text, why
couldn't you also yank over existing text?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 15:20 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
2007-09-25 21:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-27 1:00 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-09-27 15:20 ` Drew Adams [this message]
[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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