From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenneth Brun Nielsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs insert empty string Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <363c9377-fa5d-4361-abd1-b6a0b9bf1b56@r13g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> References: <5908567d-3d1a-4f09-a4cb-e2c3ee9557be@k7g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <2dab985c-15ad-442e-ae53-dfc578cc7814@b22g2000prb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300967003 4128 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2011 11:43:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:43:23 +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 Mar 24 12:43:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2iwg-0005bm-NC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:43:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51768 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2iwg-00012Y-26 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:43:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r13g2000yqk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.196.98.142 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300964372 13915 127.0.0.1 (24 Mar 2011 10:59:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:59:32 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r13g2000yqk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.196.98.142; posting-account=Y2qrgwkAAACbbT37NX8gk-aSqpI-3T6p User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Fedora/3.6.15-1.fc13 Firefox/3.6.15,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186254 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80390 Archived-At: On Mar 24, 11:50=A0am, Deniz Dogan wrote: > 2011/3/24 Kenneth Brun Nielsen : > > However this last step doesn't work as intended. Because I can not > > replace with an empty string. Simply pressing "Enter" will choose the > > default string, which is the equivalent to the previously inserted > > string "*". > > This is where you should use C-x r d instead. It will delete the > rectangle you have selected and is the equivalent of replacing its > contents with the empty string. > > -- > Deniz Dogan It seems, there is some delay in this Group, so I didn't see this post before posting the previous ones. Anyway, you are absolutely right - it's all clear to me now :) Best regards, Kenneth