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Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> writes:

> Am looking for a good way to interactively edit a list of strings,
> that is, to allow the user to selectively delete strings from the list.
> Any suggestions on how to implement this?  

You could try using `tabulated-list-mode', display your list of strings.
Then you could write a short command to remove a string from the list
and redisplay, and bind that in the local keymap. It's tiny bit
overkill, but would make it possible to do a bunch of other stuff with
the strings.