Comments | scrapdog: A yank-over-region function for Emacs

scrapdog

A yank-over-region function for Emacs

Mar 10, 2010 23:28

One feature I am surprised hasn't been added to Emacs yet is a yank (paste) operation that replaces the text in the active region.

In order to perform this operation, which is something I do all the time, I need to do a combination of kill-region/yank/yank-pop (or C-w, C-y, M-y). If there is a better way, and I am overlooking something, let me ( Read more... )

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I saw what you did there. orlandobr March 12 2010, 20:17:06 UTC

Send... what?

stone5150 March 15 2010, 16:55:52 UTC

Interesting workaround.

There is another site that may be more appropriate to post this one. You know, the one we used to play on a long time ago.

scrapdog March 15 2010, 18:03:55 UTC

That particular site won't let me log in unless I give it my credit card.

stone5150 March 15 2010, 18:58:41 UTC

I just got back from their HQ in SLO, CA. I might be able to do something about that for you.

scrapdog March 15 2010, 19:14:05 UTC

Actually, I just tried to log in and check out the lounge and it let me in.

However, I recognized no one there.

I've been using http://stackoverflow.com for programming questions and answers since I left EE.

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