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- From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: Replacing with Nothing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.004949.4178@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec11.135854.3009@nysernet.org> <LEVITTE.92Dec12201531@elmer.e.kth.se>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:49:49 GMT
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- In article <LEVITTE.92Dec12201531@elmer.e.kth.se> LEVITTE@e.kth.se (Richard Levitte) writes:
- >>>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 1992 13:58:54 GMT, astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein) said:
- >
- >AS> If I want to just delete every instance of a character string and
- >AS> replace it with absolutely nothing, I just press the meta key when I'm
- >AS> prompted for the replacement string. This works fine if that's the
- >
- >Hmmmm.... curious, I use the RETURN key, and that works perfectly well,
- >even the n:th time!
-
- I seem to recall that Meta is used in micro-emacs, and Return in GNU
- Emacs.
-
- -Joel
- (joel@wam.umd.edu)
-