How to replace a region in emacs with yank buffer contents?

Question

When I use VIM or most modeless editors (Eclipse, NetBeans etc.) I frequently do the following. If I have similar text blocks and I need to change them all, I will change on

Answer 1

The way I do this is:

• go to where you want the new stuff
• paste the good stuff
• your cursor is now between the new stuff and the stuff you want to get rid of
• select forward until everything you want to get rid of is selected
• delete it

It's a slightly different way of thinking about it. Paste what you want, then get rid of what you don't want, rather than replace what you don't want with what you do.