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 03:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <97170f43-56cd-4092-99af-3d0b1adfcd18@y26g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> References: <5908567d-3d1a-4f09-a4cb-e2c3ee9557be@k7g2000yqj.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 1300966873 3263 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2011 11:41:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:41:13 +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 12:41:09 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 1Q2iub-0004Ua-IO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:41:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49618 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2iua-0008Cy-JS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:41:08 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y26g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.196.98.142 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300964194 12577 127.0.0.1 (24 Mar 2011 10:56:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:56:34 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y26g2000yqd.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:186253 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:80388 Archived-At: On Mar 24, 11:42=A0am, Deniz Dogan wrote: > 2011/3/24 Kenneth Brun Nielsen : > > > > > On Mar 24, 5:47=A0am, PJ Weisberg wrote= : > >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Kenneth Brun Nielsen > > >> wrote: > >> > Hi, > > >> > I'm a happy user of Emacs 23.2.1. > > >> > One thing annoys me, though. > > >> > The string rectangle insert function (CTRL-x rt) is neat. But > >> > sometimes you need to insert an empty string. I cannot do this, > >> > because if I type an empty string (i.e. press Enter), then it insert > >> > the "default" string, which is equal to the last inserted string. > > >> > How can I insert an empty string? > > >> (CTRL-x rd) > > > It doesn't seem to work in this context. > > What is it that doesn't work? I misunderstood the suggestion. It works, if used in the right manner (please refer to my previous post). Best regards, Kenneth