Re: overwrite yank

[Dieter Wilhelm]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> 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.
>
> No, it won't do what he's asking. I don't know of anything, offhand, that
> will. Perhaps someone here will provide some code to do it, as a fun
> exercise.

I thought it implicit that he wanted to overwrite some *selection*
with the stuff from the kill ring.  So you think he wants for example
yanking a line of text and this same line does overwrite the line
where the cursor is (without a region)?

>
> Joe: Out of curiosity, just why do you want to do that?

Yes, why?

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    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany