On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2003, Julien Olivier wrote:
Note: Julien, there seems to be something odd about your date setting.
> > >[...]
> >
> > Waow !? Am I the only one to find it VERY complicated ? I mean CTRL-W
> > CTRL-Y, then CTRL-W CTRL-Y CTRL-Y just to do a copy/paste... I think
> > it's simpler to actually write the text manually :)
>
> BTW, there is a copy command so you don't need to kill and yank to get
> something into the kill ring, but you'd have to map it to a single
> keystroke yourself, as it is not done by default. Also, don't forget the
> other substitution commands, which can be more appropriate in somne
> circumstances.
Gordon Messmer, in another message in this thread, has pointed out that
ALT-W runs kill-ring-save, which does what I described. I was thinking of
copy-region-as-kill, which is not mapped to a key combo. I had forgotten
about ALT-W, but the help for it says:
Save the region as if killed, but don't kill it.
This command is similar to `copy-region-as-kill', except that it gives
visual feedback indicating the extent of the region being copied.
The visual feedback is a temporary highlighting of the copied region.
BTW, another neat thing you can do in emacs is to kill, copy, and yank
rectangular subregions of the file, as if it was a 2-dimensional table of
characters. Very cool for editing tables, and I don't know of another
editor that can do that.
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Matthew Saltzman
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