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From: ithai levi <ithai.levi@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Can I type text without changing my current cursor point?
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:46:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a024660903112346ncdb86e1uf62f063c644fd6ba@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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I'm almost sure I saw this once, I just can recall the sequence.
What I want to do is to hit C+something and then type but have my cursor
stay in its current point and not move forward. Then I can somehow exit this
mode (ESC) and type some text which will be inserted in between. This could
be useful to type a prefix, a suffix and then the content without having to
move the cursor back.
Example:

I would type "obj.method(" then press C+? then type "); // a comment", press
ESC and type "1,2,3" without moving the cursor.

(what I do now is use C+SPC to set the mark, type and then press C+x C+SPC
to go back to the mark)

TIA :)

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-12  6:46 ithai levi [this message]
2009-03-12 10:29 ` Can I type text without changing my current cursor point? dIbMx2
     [not found] ` <mailman.3006.1237105211.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-15 18:25   ` B. T. Raven
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2009-03-11 17:01 ithiel

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