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Ross Alexander (rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca) wrote:
: 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).

In 3.11, ^K clears the replace strings.  In earlier versions, I think
you must clear an internal variable, $replace.
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