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replace-regexp not working?


From: Sanford Selznick
Subject: replace-regexp not working?
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:08:58 -0700
User-agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X)

I have a file open (input.txt) and I'm trying to replace all "x" or "y" 
characters with a string, say "12".

So I M-x replace-regexp RET (x|y) RET 12 RET

And nothing happens.  The cursor is at the beginning of the buffer.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you,
  Sanford


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