Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!bu-cs!jbw From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: yank and yank-rectangle insert while in overwrite mode Message-ID: <38821@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 25 Sep 89 15:31:43 GMT References: <27187@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: daemon@bu-cs.BU.EDU Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department Lines: 22 In-reply-to: david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu's message of 16 Sep 89 18:50:28 GMT In article <27187@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (David Dantowitz) writes: Has anyone written code to have yank and yank-rectangle overwrite existing characters while in overwrite mode? Even though overwrite mode is enabled, both yank commands still insert, rather than overwriting. Yes and no. No one that I know of has done this for yank and yank-rectangle. However, you can get the behaviour for rectangles in which you are interested with these commands: picture-clear-rectangle picture-clear-rectangle-to-register picture-yank-rectangle picture-yank-rectangle-from-register Enjoy, -- Joe Wellsjbw%bucsf.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu ...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!jbw