Re: new member

[Pascal Bourguignon]

"minidiapolis" <minidiapolis@hotmail.com> writes:

> Hello, I don't know if I'm in the right group.  I'm a relatively new
> user to Emacs and I was wondering how I would do a search and have it
> delete the specific text.  if someone could help me out, I would really
> appreciate it.  Thanks, Mindy

Interactively:    M-x replace-regexp RET <some-regexp> RET RET

Programmatically: (while (re-search-forward "<some-regexp>" nil t)
                     (delete-region (match-beginning) (match-end)))


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