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- From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: Replacing with Nothing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.132516.26217@candle.uucp>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 13:25:16 GMT
- References: <rwa.724309301@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
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- Ross Alexander (rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca) wrote:
- : 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).
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- In 3.11, ^K clears the replace strings. In earlier versions, I think
- you must clear an internal variable, $replace.
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