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Re: overwrite yank


From: Dieter Wilhelm
Subject: Re: overwrite yank
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:52:54 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Joe Bloggs <joebloggs@nowhere.invalid> writes:

> Hi, I'm sure this is really simple, but I can't find the answer
> anywhere.  How can I overwrite from the copy buffer?  I've tried
> yanking in overwrite-mode but that doesn't work, it just inserts as
> normal, whereas I want to overwrite.  Thanks.

 Please try "delete-selection-mode" but from your description I'm not
 quite sure that this is what you want.

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany




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