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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!eru.mt.luth.se!kth.se!news.kth.se!LEVITTE
  2. From: LEVITTE@e.kth.se (Richard Levitte)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.emacs
  4. Subject: Re: Replacing with Nothing
  5. Message-ID: <LEVITTE.92Dec12201531@elmer.e.kth.se>
  6. Date: 12 Dec 92 19:15:31 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec11.135854.3009@nysernet.org>
  8. Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet)
  9. Organization: Department of TeleTransmission Theory
  10. Lines: 16
  11. In-Reply-To: astein@nysernet.org's message of Fri, 11 Dec 1992 13:58:54 GMT
  12. Nntp-Posting-Host: elmer.e.kth.se
  13.  
  14. >>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 1992 13:58:54 GMT, astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein) said:
  15.  
  16. AS> If I want to just delete every instance of a character string and
  17. AS> replace it with absolutely nothing, I just press the meta key when I'm
  18. AS> prompted for the replacement string.  This works fine if that's the
  19.  
  20. Hmmmm.... curious, I use the RETURN key, and that works perfectly well,
  21. even the n:th time!
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