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From: edf@rocky2.rockefeller.edu (David MacKenzie)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: MicroEmacs BUG BUG BUG!!!
Keywords: microemacs replace bug
Message-ID: <214@rocky8.rockefeller.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 88 05:03:09 GMT
References: <174@libove.UUCP>
Sender: notes@rocky8.rockefeller.edu
Reply-To: edf@rocky2.rockefeller.edu (David MacKenzie)
Organization: Environmental Defense Fund
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In article <174@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>
>Micro Emacs 3.9e.
>
>There is no @#$@#$@# way to delete the current replace string!!!
>
>I read the manual that comes with it, and I can't find any way to
>unset the default replace string, so that once you have replaced
>with (something) in a session, the only way to start replacing with
>(nothing) again is to restart the editor!!!!!

Here's how:

M-x execute-command-line set $replace ""

If you want to do this frequently, you could wrap it in a numbered macro
and bind a key to it.

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David MacKenzie
Environmental Defense Fund
edf@rocky2.rockefeller.edu (...rutgers!cmcl2!rocky2!edf)