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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: MicroEmacs BUG BUG BUG!!!
Summary: uEMACS replace string
Keywords: uEMACS
Message-ID: <7942@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 88 13:35:04 GMT
References: <174@libove.UUCP>
Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Daniel Lawrence)
Organization: Purdue University
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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!!!!!
>Please, SOMEONE, tell me how?
>-- 
>Jay Libove		ARPA:	jl42@andrew.cmu.edu or libove@cs.cmu.edu

Jay,
	try:

	^XA$replace<NL><NL>

	or in the macro language:

	set $replace ""

	I admit this is clumbsy, I am looking for an alternative.

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