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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: replace-regexp
Summary: another data point
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Date: 11 Apr 89 16:00:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: loic%axis_d@axis.axis.fr

In article <8904102352.AA22601@inria.inria.fr>, loic%axis_d writes:
| In GNU Emacs 18.52.10 of Sun Feb 19 1989 on axis_d (usg-unix-v)
| 
| (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.

I recently battled this in 18.53 as well.  I was replacing
"^ " with "", and ended up deleting all initial spaces.

C'mon y'all... vi gets it right... :-)
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