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joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
>In article <LEVITTE.92Dec12201531@elmer.e.kth.se> LEVITTE@e.kth.se (Richard Levitte) writes:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 1992 13:58:54 GMT, astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein) said:
>>AS> If I want to just delete every instance of a character string and
>>AS> replace it with absolutely nothing, I just press the meta key when I'm
>>AS> prompted for the replacement string.  This works fine if that's the
>>Hmmmm.... curious, I use the RETURN key, and that works perfectly well,
>>even the n:th time!
>I seem to recall that Meta is used in micro-emacs, and Return in GNU
>Emacs.

The base note describes a well-known bug in microemacs.  There's a well-known
fix too, but I don't remember what it is (sorry, haven't used me in years).

Ross
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