From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Viper: replacing text?
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 18:13:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50909030913i4092fa1cs5d4a6213420088c0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxb4niiy.fsf@gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Sean Sieger<sean.sieger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
>
> That is: I kill (or copy) a word, then travel to another word and I'd
> like to replace the latter with the former. Currently I paste the
> first word, move a character to the right and kill the second word,
> but I don't think that's the faster way to do it.
>
> You mean you can't
> M-d
> C-f (or wherever)
> M-d
> C-u 2 C-y
> in Viper?
>
> With all due respect, why do people use GNU/Emacs to imitate Vi? I've
> never understood it. The original post seems to point to how Viper
> diminishes the power of the Emacs environment.
Do you mean you want us to explain how this is done in Viper so you
can understand why we are using Viper?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-03 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-03 14:11 Viper: replacing text? Elena
2009-09-03 15:05 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.5945.1251990364.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-03 15:21 ` Elena
2009-09-03 15:40 ` Sean Sieger
2009-09-03 16:13 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-09-03 16:38 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.5955.1251995918.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-03 19:38 ` Elena
2009-09-03 21:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-04 1:19 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.5983.1252027190.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-04 7:58 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-09-04 10:41 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.5974.1252014851.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-03 22:51 ` Elena
2009-09-04 8:02 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-09-04 8:31 ` Elena
[not found] ` <mailman.5946.1251992506.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-03 15:58 ` Elena
2009-09-03 17:00 ` Sean Sieger
2009-09-03 17:01 ` Sean Sieger
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