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From: gildea@BBN.COM (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: replace-regexp
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Date: 11 Apr 89 17:38:09 GMT
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    Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 01:52:42 +0200
    From: loic%axis_d@axis.axis.fr
    To: axis!bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
    Subject: replace-regexp
    
    (replace-regexp "^." "" ())
    
    It empties my buffer !
    
    I guess that it removes the character. Then the point is still
    at the beginning of the line. So it removes the next one. And
    so on.
    
    It should skip to the next new-line. Don't you think so ?


No!  There is no reason for such special casing; you're just using the
wrong regexp.  Try (replace-regexp "^.\\(.*\\)$" "\\1").

 < Stephen