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- From: rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: Replacing with Nothing
- Message-ID: <rwa.724309301@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 05:01:41 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.135854.3009@nysernet.org> <LEVITTE.92Dec12201531@elmer.e.kth.se> <1992Dec13.004949.4178@wam.umd.edu>
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- joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
- >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.
-
- The base note describes a well-known bug in microemacs. There's a well-known
- fix too, but I don't remember what it is (sorry, haven't used me in years).
-
- Ross
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- Ross Alexander rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (403) 675 6311 ve6pdq@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca
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- "One way of writing a book by a committee is to restrict its contents to the
- intersection of the various opinions; it is a technique that tends to lead to
- short texts of high quality, and has the advantage that in the case of a
- sufficiently diverse committee, it leads to no text at all." E. W. Dijkstra
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