From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Viper: replacing text? Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 18:13:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: <058f0626-a0d0-4d45-b8a6-01e948464151@j4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <87fxb4niiy.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251994654 18893 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2009 16:17:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:17:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Sean Sieger Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 03 18:17:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MjF02-0003Nm-CL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:17:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44154 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MjF01-0002rk-IO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MjEww-0008Rh-3n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MjEwr-0008Py-Ia for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:14:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46133 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MjEwr-0008Pr-CP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:14:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yx0-f179.google.com ([209.85.210.179]:36736) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjEwr-0002im-3N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:14:09 -0400 Original-Received: by yxe9 with SMTP id 9so1254901yxe.26 for ; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:14:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=KUHaoK7D6EHLKeyvYGg+0XShZty+d1uaX7TIH+7qyXE=; b=uZy0u3KMAaLU8+XwX6Mwi1DWt5fVYTfk4g/VWf0o653gg22Z38euPyYEN3EHtIzLgF aec1QXikPyGDDTguT3li6C4GTm55hmfGDLnrq5blIL/bl8hB8pEPnv3sJ7fDwykwwLyI foAZDOEpwBESdIYHtenL1RxYzNyi8mKbCd+/0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cHVswFlirA6M9Q8CCBFYDZP71zrJTZoVy2i22RS+EeoOLrY/A9SAR/b1N+T5DiVWgP iNTJQw4BBHNCkk4moTKL1MRXvueVi+WUlO6H281gn52mK5fgF89n5uODfoks+01SPruu PcshGPVnLMRDx2/IzCM8yGL5rUgNkTSF6oZoo= Original-Received: by 10.100.18.15 with SMTP id 15mr10994148anr.48.1251994448430; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:14:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87fxb4niiy.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67807 Archived-At: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Sean Sieger wrote: > Elena writes: > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0That is: I kill (or copy) a word, then travel to another wor= d and I'd > =C2=A0 =C2=A0like to replace the latter with the former. Currently I past= e the > =C2=A0 =C2=A0first word, move a character to the right and kill the secon= d word, > =C2=A0 =C2=A0but 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? =C2=A0I'= ve > never understood it. =C2=A0The original post seems to point to how Viper > diminishes the power of the Emacs environment. Do you mean you want us to explain how this is done in Viper so you can understand why we are using Viper?