Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!pollux!ti-csl!mips!peterson From: peterson@mips.csc.ti.com (Bob Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: MicroEmacs BUG BUG BUG!!! Message-ID: <61040@ti-csl.CSNET> Date: 14 Oct 88 17:51:30 GMT References: <174@libove.UUCP> Sender: news@ti-csl.CSNET Reply-To: peterson@mips.UUCP (Bob Peterson) Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas Lines: 18 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!!! > >Please, SOMEONE, tell me how? > I enter, into an otherwise empty buffer this: replace-string "old string" "" then I return to the buffer I'm editing and do M-Xexecute-buffer, giving as the buffer name the one containing the replace-string command. Works for me! Hardcopy and Electronic Addresses: Office: Bob Peterson Compuserve: 70235,326 NB 2nd Floor CSC Aisle C3 P.O. Box 861686 Usenet: peterson@csc.ti.com Plano, Tx USA 75086 (214) 995-6080 (work) or (214) 596-3720 (ans. machine)