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From: eric%yamada-sun@CSE.OGI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: eval-last-sexp mystery
Message-ID: <9007311707.AA08381@noname>
Date: 31 Jul 90 17:07:31 GMT
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If I have a buffer that looks like this:
	(delete-matching-lines "fred")
	ellen
	fred
	mary
	rose
and I put point after the right paren and do C-x C-e (eval-last-sexp),
why doesn't the line with `fred' on it disappear?? (Try it). If I do
`M-x delete-matching-lines fred', it does go away.  I suspect there's
something basic going on here that I don't understand.

Apologies if I mailed this message to the wrong place, but I can't
send or receive news.

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