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 03:11:05 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300963930 18835 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2011 10:52:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:52:10 +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 11:52:04 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 1Q2i96-0006HO-2U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:52:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33907 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2hzA-0003Wu-9r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:41:48 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u8g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 93.163.37.150 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300961465 19430 127.0.0.1 (24 Mar 2011 10:11:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u8g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=93.163.37.150; 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:186246 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:80383 Archived-At: 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. /Kenneth