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From: zaccone@shire.cs.psu.edu
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Problem with replace-regexp?
Message-ID: <1989Oct28.200348.7058@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu>
Date: 28 Oct 89 20:03:48 GMT
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I have been trying to use replace-regexp to eliminate the first
character in every line of a file.  If I try replacing "^." with "",
everything in the file gets deleted!  Shouldn't this work?  Is this a
bug, or am I missing something obvious?  I am using version 18.54 of
emacs.

Rick Zaccone
zaccone@bknlvms.bitnet
zaccone@sol.bucknell.edu