From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bernd Wolter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: backward-delete-word? Date: 12 Dec 2002 16:55:19 +0100 Organization: Not much Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039708975 14123 80.91.224.249 (12 Dec 2002 16:02:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:02:55 +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 18MVnY-0003fZ-00 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:02:52 +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 18MVlT-0003yd-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:00:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!bnewspeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewspeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!newsfeed1.sbs.de!news.mch.sbs.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: m33773pp.mchp.siemens.de Original-X-Trace: news.mch.sbs.de 1039708716 18432 139.23.242.230 (12 Dec 2002 15:58:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@siemens.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:58:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108039 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4570 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4570 Timur Aydin writes: [...] > > Yes, that works for one paste, but when I position to another string > that I want to paste over, the C-y now pastes the word that was > previously killed. Because the killed data goes to the kill-ring, > whenever I operate on a new word, I have to hit C-y M-y and the number > of M-y's is going to be one more than before. So, if I want to operate > on 4 strings, I will have to hit C-y M-y M-y M-y on the fourth > string... > > -- > Timur. > Why not use registers for that. Look up the documentation for "C-x rs" and "C-x ri" or read about registers in the info file. HTH Bernd