Erase Region and paste in once?

Erase Region and paste in once?

[Daniel]

Hi all,

In general editors, I do copy (ctrl-c) some text in firefox and make a
region in a editor where I want to replace and paste(ctrl-v) it.

I tried to do in emacs, but I can't find a way to overwrite a certain
region by doing yank at one time.

Is it possible to do it in emacs?

Re: Erase Region and paste in once?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Daniel" <hanmoai@gmail.com>
> Date: 3 Apr 2007 18:33:47 -0700
> 
> In general editors, I do copy (ctrl-c) some text in firefox and make a
> region in a editor where I want to replace and paste(ctrl-v) it.
> 
> I tried to do in emacs, but I can't find a way to overwrite a certain
> region by doing yank at one time.

Did you try to turn on the CUA mode?

   M-x cua-mode RET

Re: Erase Region and paste in once?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: "Daniel" <hanmoai@gmail.com>
>> Date: 3 Apr 2007 18:33:47 -0700
>>
>> In general editors, I do copy (ctrl-c) some text in firefox and make a
>> region in a editor where I want to replace and paste(ctrl-v) it.
>>
>> I tried to do in emacs, but I can't find a way to overwrite a certain
>> region by doing yank at one time.
> 
> Did you try to turn on the CUA mode?
> 
>    M-x cua-mode RET

It doesn't seem to be included.  See http://www.cua.dk/cua.el

Matt Flaschen

Re: Erase Region and paste in once?

[Daniel]

On Apr 3, 8:08 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: "Daniel" <hanm...@gmail.com>
> > Date: 3 Apr 2007 18:33:47 -0700
>
> > In general editors, I do copy (ctrl-c) some text in firefox and make a
> > region in a editor where I want to replace and paste(ctrl-v) it.
>
> > I tried to do in emacs, but I can't find a way to overwrite a certain
> > region by doing yank at one time.
>
> Did you try to turn on the CUA mode?
>
>    M-x cua-mode RET

The problem of cua-mode is override C-c and C-v. I am using C-v for
moving pages. Is there any way to use only to overwrite the region not
touching C-c or C-v?

Re: Erase Region and paste in once?

[Samuel Karl Peterson]

"Daniel" <hanmoai@gmail.com> on 3 Apr 2007 18:33:47 -0700 didst step
forth and proclaim thus:

> Hi all,
> 
> In general editors, I do copy (ctrl-c) some text in firefox and make a
> region in a editor where I want to replace and paste(ctrl-v) it.
> 
> I tried to do in emacs, but I can't find a way to overwrite a certain
> region by doing yank at one time.
> 
> Is it possible to do it in emacs?

Anything's possible in Emacs ;)

Behold my lisp snippet:

(defun sams-zap-yank (beg end)
  (interactive "r")
  (delete-region beg end)
  (yank))

Assign it to a key such as:

(global-set-key "\C-cv" 'sams-zap-yank)

Who knows, Emacs may have already had this functionality. I may have
just reinvented the wheel, but eh, it was a small wheel.

-- 
Sam Peterson
skpeterson At nospam ucdavis.edu
"if programmers were paid to remove code instead of adding it,
software would be much better" -- unknown

Re: Erase Region and paste in once?

[cmr.Pent]

Daniel:
> On Apr 3, 8:08 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > From: "Daniel" <hanm...@gmail.com>
> > > Date: 3 Apr 2007 18:33:47 -0700
> >
> > > In general editors, I do copy (ctrl-c) some text in firefox and make a
> > > region in a editor where I want to replace and paste(ctrl-v) it.
> >
> > > I tried to do in emacs, but I can't find a way to overwrite a certain
> > > region by doing yank at one time.
> >
> > Did you try to turn on the CUA mode?
> >
> >    M-x cua-mode RET
>
> The problem of cua-mode is override C-c and C-v. I am using C-v for
> moving pages. Is there any way to use only to overwrite the region not
> touching C-c or C-v?

Try M-x cua-mode 'emacs RET

Re: Erase Region and paste in once?

[Alexander Zhukov]

>>>>> Samuel Karl Peterson (SKP) writes:

 SKP> "Daniel" <hanmoai@gmail.com> on 3 Apr 2007 18:33:47 -0700 didst
 SKP> step forth and proclaim thus:

 >> Hi all,
 >> 
 >> In general editors, I do copy (ctrl-c) some text in firefox and make
 >> a region in a editor where I want to replace and paste(ctrl-v) it.
 >> 
 >> I tried to do in emacs, but I can't find a way to overwrite a
 >> certain region by doing yank at one time.
 >> 
 >> Is it possible to do it in emacs?

 SKP> Anything's possible in Emacs ;)

 SKP> Behold my lisp snippet:

 SKP> (defun sams-zap-yank (beg end) (interactive "r") (delete-region
 SKP> beg end) (yank))

 SKP> Assign it to a key such as:

 SKP> (global-set-key "\C-cv" 'sams-zap-yank)

 SKP> Who knows, Emacs may have already had this functionality. I may
 SKP> have just reinvented the wheel, but eh, it was a small wheel.

I use this:

(delete-selection-mode 1)

Here is description:

delete-selection-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
`delsel.el'.  (delete-selection-mode &optional arg)

Toggle Delete Selection mode.
With prefix arg, turn Delete Selection mode on if and only if arg is
positive.

When Delete Selection mode is enabled, Transient Mark mode is also
enabled and typed text replaces the selection if the selection is
active.  Otherwise, typed text is just inserted at point regardless of
any selection.

-- 
Alexander Zhukov

Re: Erase Region and paste in once?

[Daniel]

On Apr 4, 4:13 am, Alexander Zhukov <z...@yandex.ru> wrote:
> >>>>> Samuel Karl Peterson (SKP) writes:
>
>  SKP> "Daniel" <hanm...@gmail.com> on 3 Apr 2007 18:33:47 -0700 didst
>  SKP> step forth and proclaim thus:
>
>  >> Hi all,
>  >>
>  >> In general editors, I do copy (ctrl-c) some text in firefox and make
>  >> a region in a editor where I want to replace and paste(ctrl-v) it.
>  >>
>  >> I tried to do in emacs, but I can't find a way to overwrite a
>  >> certain region by doing yank at one time.
>  >>
>  >> Is it possible to do it in emacs?
>
>  SKP> Anything's possible in Emacs ;)
>
>  SKP> Behold my lisp snippet:
>
>  SKP> (defun sams-zap-yank (beg end) (interactive "r") (delete-region
>  SKP> beg end) (yank))
>
>  SKP> Assign it to a key such as:
>
>  SKP> (global-set-key "\C-cv" 'sams-zap-yank)
>
>  SKP> Who knows, Emacs may have already had this functionality. I may
>  SKP> have just reinvented the wheel, but eh, it was a small wheel.
>
> I use this:
>
> (delete-selection-mode 1)
>
> Here is description:
>
> delete-selection-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> `delsel.el'.  (delete-selection-mode &optional arg)
>
> Toggle Delete Selection mode.
> With prefix arg, turn Delete Selection mode on if and only if arg is
> positive.
>
> When Delete Selection mode is enabled, Transient Mark mode is also
> enabled and typed text replaces the selection if the selection is
> active.  Otherwise, typed text is just inserted at point regardless of
> any selection.
>
> --
> Alexander Zhukov

Thank you, Alexander Zhukov,

I didn't even know the mode. Great Help.

Thank you and other guys. I could know emacs do lot of things. Thanks.

RE: Erase Region and paste in once?

[Drew Adams]

> > delete-selection-mode
>
> Thank you, Alexander Zhukov,
> I didn't even know the mode. Great Help.

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DeleteSelectionMode

Re: Erase Region and paste in once?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Alexander Zhukov wrote:
>>>>>> Samuel Karl Peterson (SKP) writes:
> 
>  SKP> "Daniel" <hanmoai@gmail.com> on 3 Apr 2007 18:33:47 -0700 didst
>  SKP> step forth and proclaim thus:
> 
>  >> Hi all,
>  >> 
>  >> In general editors, I do copy (ctrl-c) some text in firefox and make
>  >> a region in a editor where I want to replace and paste(ctrl-v) it.
>  >> 
>  >> I tried to do in emacs, but I can't find a way to overwrite a
>  >> certain region by doing yank at one time.
>  >> 
>  >> Is it possible to do it in emacs?
> 
>  SKP> Anything's possible in Emacs ;)
> 
>  SKP> Behold my lisp snippet:
> 
>  SKP> (defun sams-zap-yank (beg end) (interactive "r") (delete-region
>  SKP> beg end) (yank))
> 
>  SKP> Assign it to a key such as:
> 
>  SKP> (global-set-key "\C-cv" 'sams-zap-yank)
> 
>  SKP> Who knows, Emacs may have already had this functionality. I may
>  SKP> have just reinvented the wheel, but eh, it was a small wheel.
> 
> I use this:
> 
> (delete-selection-mode 1)
> 
> Here is description:
> 
> delete-selection-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> `delsel.el'.  (delete-selection-mode &optional arg)
> 
> Toggle Delete Selection mode.
> With prefix arg, turn Delete Selection mode on if and only if arg is
> positive.

Interesting.  I'll try it out for a while.

Matt Flaschen