On Saturday, 9 May 2015 22:42:21 UTC+1, Emanuel Berg wrote:
Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> writes:
1. go to "new text", kill some relevant text 2.
go to "existing text", yank 3. repeat
The best way to do this is to move (once), kill
everything, move again (once), and yank everything.
So use the kill *ring*.
When you yank, if it isn't what you like, do
(immediately after the yank) `M-y' for `yank-pop'.
I know this is called `yank-pop`, but it is more of a "peek" because it keeps
the kill ring intact.
More generally though, this is a neat solution. I hadn't thought to do it this
way. The only problem with it is that it necessitates doing everything in exact
order and not making any mistakes along the way. Therefore, I'll prefer `C-x
C-x` when there are more than a few things needing moved around, but prefer
this in simple cases.