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From: decouty@irisa.fr (Bertrand Decouty)
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Subject: Re: Using regular expressions in Micro Emacs 3.10
Message-ID: <1991May17.072935.12697@irisa.fr>
Date: 17 May 91 07:29:35 GMT
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In article <1991May16.090143.12277@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
| 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.)
| 
| -- 
| Lars Wirzenius  wirzenius@cc.helsinki.fi


This has been fixed in 3.11 beta. ^K deletes the current replace string, when
asked for the replace string, and inserts an empty string. A very nice
feature! 

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