From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using string-rectangle more than once Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:48:38 +0100 Message-ID: <874n7o9prd.fsf@web.de> References: <86habomdf3.fsf@somewhere.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383839354 11717 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2013 15:49:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 15:49:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 07 16:49:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VeRpc-0002kI-T0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:49:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40941 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeRpc-0000jX-F1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:49:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34392) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeRpM-0000jN-HT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:49:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeRpD-00086Z-Ph for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:49:00 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43738) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VeRpD-00086F-Is for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:48:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VeRpB-0001Vy-Gr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:48:49 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-42-170.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.42.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:48:49 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-42-170.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:48:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-42-170.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Tz3EETfyM5a3d6qqPjb+zKMZ6js= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94388 Archived-At: "Sebastien Vauban" writes: > I do select the same region, call `C-x r t', and have to type the > empty string. But pressing RET selects the default, that is the last > replacement string... which is not empty. > > How to pass an empty string, then? I would just kill the rectangle instead: C-x r k. Regards, Michael.