Re: Viper: replacing text?

[Sean Sieger]

Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

    That is: I kill (or copy) a word, then travel to another word and I'd
    like to replace the latter with the former. Currently I paste the
    first word, move a character to the right and kill the second word,
    but I don't think that's the faster way to do it.

You mean you can't
M-d
C-f (or wherever)
M-d
C-u 2 C-y
in Viper?

With all due respect, why do people use GNU/Emacs to imitate Vi?  I've
never understood it.  The original post seems to point to how Viper
diminishes the power of the Emacs environment.