Re: Erase Region and paste in once?

[Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>]

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