Re: Viper: replacing text?

[Elena]

On 3 Set, 15:40, Sean Sieger <sean.sie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Elena <egarr...@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.

Oh, no! I just prefer modal editing.

Thank you for posting the command sequence, I'll bind it to an
available Viper mode sequence.