(replace-regexp "^..." "" nil) fiasco

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From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1991 21:06

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[18.57] Hmmm, let's strip the crud off the front of these lines:

 * to the next host in the host list.  Hosts are sorted in increasing
 * lexicographic order.
 */
/*
 * initfiles creates the chkfile structures for the shared files:
 */
/*
 * mkdom makes a domain structure and adds it to domain_list.  A pointer to

I know, we'll use M-x replace-regexp "^..." "":


r.

/*
s:

/*

Holy tomatoes, my precious source code has been reduced to rubble by
the vicious GNU Emacs editing machine.  Furthermore, hitting UNDO
reveals that it's going to take me a thousand undoes before I can
restore the damage from that _single_ replace-regexp.

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