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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!cs1.cc.lehigh.edu!tbrannon
  2. From: tbrannon@mars.csee.lehigh.edu (tbrannon)
  3. Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
  4. Subject: regexp question
  5. Message-ID: <TBRANNON.92Aug31111138@mars.csee.lehigh.edu>
  6. Date: 31 Aug 92 16:11:38 GMT
  7. Sender: usenet@chili.cc.lehigh.edu
  8. Organization: AI-LAB, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lehigh
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  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: mars.csee.lehigh.edu
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  14. Ok, I had the following text
  15.  
  16. Computer Engineering meets in _________________
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  18.  
  19. ... I wanted to replace the sequnce of underscores with a question
  20. mark so I did M-x replace-regexp _* with ? but it put question marks
  21. between each letter of all the words. 
  22.  
  23. Why did this happen?
  24.  
  25. How can I get replace-regexp to do what I want?
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  28. Terry Brannon
  29. tb06@pl122a.eecs.lehigh.edu
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