Re: Viper: replacing text?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Sean Sieger<sean.sieger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>    That is: I kill (or copy) a word, then travel to another word and I'd
>    like to replace the latter with the former. Currently I paste the
>    first word, move a character to the right and kill the second word,
>    but I don't think that's the faster way to do it.
>
> You mean you can't
> M-d
> C-f (or wherever)
> M-d
> C-u 2 C-y
> in Viper?
>
> With all due respect, why do people use GNU/Emacs to imitate Vi?  I've
> never understood it.  The original post seems to point to how Viper
> diminishes the power of the Emacs environment.


Do you mean you want us to explain how this is done in Viper so you
can understand why we are using Viper?