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Re: overwrite yank
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xraysmalevich |
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Re: overwrite yank |
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Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:33:50 -0000 |
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On Sep 27, 11:20 am, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 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)?
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> Yes, that was my interpretation. But I've been wrong before. ;-)
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> That would seem to be useful: if you can type over existing text, why
> couldn't you also yank over existing text?
I'd also like to see this function.
Why do I want to do it? Well, I just do. Trust me.