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Re: A question regarding cut and paste.
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: A question regarding cut and paste. |
Date: |
Fri, 23 May 2003 08:15:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Robin Singh" <nsnanda@hotmail.com> writes:
> Hello All,
> I am a naïve email user. In other windows editors, I can
> 1. Select text(t1) from somewhere and copy it .
> 2. Go somewhere else and and select some other text(t2) and paste
> t1. So t2 will be replaced by t1.
The Emacs way to do it is to use C-w to cut t2, then use C-y to
yank. This will yank t2 which is not what you wanted. But then you
can use M-y which will replace t2 with t1. (Further M-y will
continue to replace the stuff you last yanked.)
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