From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: emacs lacks ed's "c" Date: 23 Dec 2002 04:01:50 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u1h5961d.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040601820 24724 80.91.224.249 (23 Dec 2002 00:03:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 00:03:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18QG4I-0006Q6-00 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 01:03:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18QG3d-000705-01 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:02:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18QG3C-0006hh-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:02:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18QG37-0006aE-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:02:26 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18QG2I-0005mJ-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:01:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18QG1N-0006G4-00 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 01:00:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18QG13-0006FK-00 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 01:00:17 +0100 Original-Path: jidanni.org!news Original-Lines: 7 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4074 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4074 Could it be that emacs does not implement a basic ed(1) command, "c", for changing text, i.e. emacs seems to have no way, with just one command, to exchange the current region with the contents of the kill buffer. Not that anybody needed it of course but aren't you going to keep up with the Joneses? -- Http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780