From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Bloggs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: overwrite yank Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:56:31 +0100 Message-ID: <87tzpkm500.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190657555 3116 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2007 18:12:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:12:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 24 20:12:30 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 1IZsPw-0003Xd-GD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:12:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZsPt-0003jz-O2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:12:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:56:39 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3rMokJ9GAi0asoHhc0+rVeQbATU= Original-Lines: 4 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-agxKBqqhGMoPWxJ2EB6B/00YWuls+InSzEfozDRZaE7JjWSg0azgxQma1UuTkrh4GnGhLT09Y1nFvgz!A4ZUfiiKb2cy6t7LQO+cw02BBMwsVDLud7h5eJS/yPTxflprMjpf Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.36 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152292 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:12:05 -0400 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:47804 Archived-At: Hi, I'm sure this is really simple, but I can't find the answer anywhere. How can I overwrite from the copy buffer? I've tried yanking in overwrite-mode but that doesn't work, it just inserts as normal, whereas I want to overwrite. Thanks.