From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs insert empty string Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:47:17 -0700 Message-ID: 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 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300942091 9395 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2011 04:48:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:48:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Kenneth Brun Nielsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 24 05:48:07 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 1Q2cSo-0006Xe-Du for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:48:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51264 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2cSn-0002pF-E1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34203 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2cSC-0002pA-FU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2cSB-0004WS-Az for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:47:24 -0400 Original-Received: from p3plsmtpa07-10.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ([173.201.192.239]:38188) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2cSB-0004WL-17 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 22157 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2011 04:47:19 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (209.85.161.41) by p3plsmtpa07-10.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (173.201.192.239) with ESMTP; 24 Mar 2011 04:47:19 -0000 Original-Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so9380557fxm.0 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.127.210 with SMTP id h18mr2658270fas.77.1300942037629; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.102.68 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:47:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5908567d-3d1a-4f09-a4cb-e2c3ee9557be@k7g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 173.201.192.239 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:80374 Archived-At: 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)