From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: copying and pasting in emacs
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:55:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090406145552.GE1645@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090406094744.GA18414@debian-hp.lan>
Hi, Daniel!
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:47:44PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:07:41AM +0200, Bourgneuf Francois wrote:
> > Use C-y for pasting (y stands for yank)
> I know I'm going to probably get yelled at, sorry I know I should go
> read the manual, but considering this was asked, what's the command to
> grab an old yank?
M-y. First do C-y, see that you've yanked the wrong stuff, then do M-y
repeatedly till you get what you want.
> eg. yank something that was cut before the last cut?
> eg. ctr+space ctr+w ctr+k then oh damn, how do I paste that first block
> of text?
> Hope that makes sense!
Absolutely!
> Daniel.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-06 9:47 copying and pasting in emacs Daniel Dalton
2009-04-06 14:55 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2009-04-06 21:40 ` Daniel Dalton
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2009-04-06 9:07 Bourgneuf Francois
2009-04-06 9:42 ` Daniel Dalton
2009-04-06 14:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-04-06 14:56 ` Renaud Casenave-Péré
[not found] ` <mailman.4706.1239028278.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-02 23:59 ` David Combs
2009-04-05 14:17 luca.pamparana
2009-04-05 14:56 ` Richard Riley
2009-04-05 14:57 ` lore
2009-04-05 15:45 ` Nurullah Akkaya
2009-04-05 16:06 ` rustom
2009-04-05 17:48 ` Drew Adams
2009-04-05 17:53 ` Peter Finn
[not found] ` <mailman.4665.1238954048.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-05 21:43 ` B. T. Raven
2009-04-06 7:29 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.4658.1238946331.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-02 23:50 ` David Combs
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