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In <1992Dec11.135854.3009@nysernet.org> astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein) writes:

>If I want to just delete every instance of a character string and
>replace it with absolutely nothing, I just press the meta key when I'm
>prompted for the replacement string.  This works fine if that's the
>first time I've done a replacement.  But that doesn't work if I've
>done a replacement before during that emacs session, in which case
>just pressing the meta key acts to accept the previous replacement.
>How can I do such a search and replace in that case?

In MicroEmacs this was fixed in version 3.11 - by typing ^K (or whatever your
kill-to-end-of-line character is) it will clear the replace string.  On
versions prior to V3.11 you had to save your file, exit MicroEmacs, go back
in, and do the replace (exiting MicroEmacs naturally clears the default
replace string).

I can't help with GNU emacs...

Bill
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