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From: wirzeniu@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Using regular expressions in Micro Emacs 3.10
Message-ID: <1991May16.090143.12277@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 16 May 91 09:01:43 GMT
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In article <BADRI.91May14150327@elysium.warren.mentor.com> badri@warren.mentorg.com (Badri Lokanathan) writes:
>I set mode to MAGIC, then execute replace ^ with XX. Now when I try
>to replace YY$ with <nothing>, I am unable to get rid of the former
>replacement string XX.

M-^X set $replace ""

(Execute command line which sets the value of the variable $replace to
the empty string.)

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Lars Wirzenius  wirzenius@cc.helsinki.fi