From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: overwrite yank Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:19:47 -0700 Message-ID: References: <873ax2eac9.fsf@debby.local.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190755340 2854 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2007 21:22:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:22:20 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 25 23:22:15 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 1IaHq6-0006Nl-5i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:21:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IaHq3-0000gQ-9k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IaHpi-0000d0-AJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IaHpg-0000a6-LY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:20:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IaHpg-0000Zs-Gp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:20:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IaHpf-0008W4-RW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:20:40 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l8PLKbbY030263 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:20:37 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id l8PLKYj3004267 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:20:35 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-64-198.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3243858181190755163; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:19:23 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <873ax2eac9.fsf@debby.local.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:47853 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. > > Please try "delete-selection-mode" but from your description I'm not > quite sure that this is what you want. No, it won't do what he's asking. I don't know of anything, offhand, that will. Perhaps someone here will provide some code to do it, as a fun exercise. Joe: Out of curiosity, just why do you want to do that?