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Re: C-y M-y M-y M-y M-y: 20 year retrospection on yanking due
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: C-y M-y M-y M-y M-y: 20 year retrospection on yanking due |
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Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:03:56 +0200 |
> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 19 Dec 2001 17:02:58 +0800
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> You put the cursor on the spot you want to yank the text to in the
> target buffer, and hit C-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y M-y ...
> until you see it's the one you wanted. You dare not break the chain
> of M-y's, and all the while all kinds of inappropriate
> material gets temporarily stuck in your file.
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> What if the phone rings, you miss a beat or get emotionally attached
> or something and forget what you were doing?
You mean, you don't know about the "Edit->Select and Paste" menu item?