* A question regarding cut and paste.
@ 2003-05-22 23:29 Robin Singh
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From: Robin Singh @ 2003-05-22 23:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hello All,
I am a naïve email user. In other windows editors, I can
1. Select text(t1) from somewhere and copy it .
2. Go somewhere else and and select some other text(t2) and paste t1. So t2
will be replaced by t1.
How do we do this in emacs ? Does anyone have macro to do this ? I know
theres search replace command but I dont want to use that.
Thanks in advance,
Robin
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* Re: A question regarding cut and paste.
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@ 2003-05-23 1:49 ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-05-23 6:15 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Benjamin Rutt @ 2003-05-23 1:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
"Robin Singh" <nsnanda@hotmail.com> writes:
> Hello All,
> I am a naïve email user. In other windows editors, I can
> 1. Select text(t1) from somewhere and copy it .
> 2. Go somewhere else and and select some other text(t2) and paste
> t1. So t2 will be replaced by t1.
>
> How do we do this in emacs ? Does anyone have macro to do this ? I
> know there's search replace command but I don't want to use that.
For a partial solution, I think you want (delete-selection-mode 1) in
your ~/.emacs. Then, just after you select text t2, you have to hit
the BACKSPACE or DELETE key, and then you can paste text t1 in its
place.
--
Benjamin
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* Re: A question regarding cut and paste.
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2003-05-23 1:49 ` A question regarding cut and paste Benjamin Rutt
@ 2003-05-23 6:15 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 2003-05-23 6:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
"Robin Singh" <nsnanda@hotmail.com> writes:
> Hello All,
> I am a naïve email user. In other windows editors, I can
> 1. Select text(t1) from somewhere and copy it .
> 2. Go somewhere else and and select some other text(t2) and paste
> t1. So t2 will be replaced by t1.
The Emacs way to do it is to use C-w to cut t2, then use C-y to
yank. This will yank t2 which is not what you wanted. But then you
can use M-y which will replace t2 with t1. (Further M-y will
continue to replace the stuff you last yanked.)
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