From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Erase Region and paste in once? Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:08:35 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1175650427.745405.43310@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175656133 6711 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2007 03:08:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 03:08:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 04 05:08:52 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 1HYvre-00083z-DX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:08:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HYvur-0004kG-9P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HYvuc-0004k1-W8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:11:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HYvub-0004jo-6w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:11:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HYvub-0004jl-1l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HYvrN-000704-9k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:08:33 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-32-71.inter.net.il [80.230.32.71]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id GLB60286 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 06:08:31 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <1175650427.745405.43310@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> (hanmoai@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:42405 Archived-At: > From: "Daniel" > Date: 3 Apr 2007 18:33:47 -0700 > > In general editors, I do copy (ctrl-c) some text in firefox and make a > region in a editor where I want to replace and paste(ctrl-v) it. > > I tried to do in emacs, but I can't find a way to overwrite a certain > region by doing yank at one time. Did you try to turn on the CUA mode? M-x cua-mode RET