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Emacs Copy Paste... Kill, Delete?
Edited by rizoma on
Hi guys
I'm using Emacs:
I want to delete a word without ctrl-w, so that I can then replace it with ctrl-f.
Can anyone help?


P.s. I'm using Casey .emacs file

p.p.s I mean like this video
Carsten Holtkamp
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Emacs Copy Paste... Kill, Delete?
Not really getting your point :)
you mean overwrite?
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs...tml_node/efaq/Overwrite-mode.html

or delete selection?
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DeleteSelectionMode

Maybe you find your answer here:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryEditing

Good luck
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Emacs Copy Paste... Kill, Delete?
Edited by rizoma on
I'm investigating further, maybe what I'm looking for is move the pointer of the kill-ring to the previous item, so that I can paste the previous string that I killed
Someone knows how?