Thanks Dave... I don't want to belabour the point.. yet the named buffers allow me to delete the word I want to replace without losing the original yanked word.
My problem was that the original yanked entry would be overwritten in memory by the following deletion (yw dw pw -> leaves me with the dw in memory). Remember, I want to replace the word at the cursor with the in-memory one. I had hoped there would be a key-sequence to paste and overwrite a word in one go, nevertheless the named buffer does what I require - it's just, as you infer, a little involved. regards /j-p. On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:41:45AM -0100, john-paul delaney wrote: > > Having previously yanked a word, I now want to replace the word at > > the cursor with the one in memory. What's the best way to do this > > substitution? > > Others have mentioned named buffers, but generally for this kind of work > you don't need it. Just 'yw' to yank the word into the unnamed buffer, > and 'pw' to stuff it back. > > Cheers, > ----------------------- JUSTATEST Art Online www.justatest.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
