From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthew Flaschen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Erase Region and paste in once? Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:18:38 -0400 Message-ID: <4613190E.4040604@gatech.edu> References: <1175650427.745405.43310@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175656743 9336 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2007 03:19:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 03:19:03 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 04 05:19:00 2007 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 1HYw1T-0006Km-ND for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:18:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HYw4g-00078Q-MF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HYw4Q-00078J-Iw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:22:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HYw4O-000787-2m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:22:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HYw4N-000783-Vi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from deliverator6.gatech.edu ([130.207.165.168]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HYw1A-0007z7-86 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:18:40 -0400 Original-Received: from deliverator6.gatech.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FC601849 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 23:18:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) Original-Received: from mailprx4.gatech.edu (mailprx4.prism.gatech.edu [130.207.171.18]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.mail.gatech.edu", Issuer "RSA Data Security, Inc." (verified OK)) by deliverator6.gatech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9451848 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 23:18:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) Original-Received: from [128.61.73.81] (r73h81.res.gatech.edu [128.61.73.81]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (sasl: method=PLAIN, username=mflaschen3@mailprx4.gatech.edu, sender=n/a) by mailprx4.gatech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3366D216C for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2007 23:18:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9 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:42406 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: "Daniel" >> 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