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- From: bill@cambridge.apple.com (Bill St. Clair)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: Doing "replace" in Fred
- Message-ID: <9301211842.AA21287@cambridge.apple.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:47:05 GMT
- Sender: owner-info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
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- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
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- At 4:48 1/21/93 +0000, John Kim wrote:
- >joungwoo@mensa.usc.edu (John Kim) writes:
- >
- >>I'm using MCL-2.0f and like Fred because it works almost as Emacs. But to my
- >>surprise, there doesn't seem to be a way to replace (change) one string to
- >>another, the feature which comes very handy in a programing environment. Am I
- >>missing something?
- >
- >>Please email me.
- >
- >>Thanks,
- >
- >>John
- >
- >OK. I got it. (shame on me.) It was there in the Edit menu under SEARCH
- >(command-F). My absentminded mistake was in trying to do it in EMACS fashion
- >(looking for an extended, Meta-x, command.)
- >
- >Thank you for all your help.
-
- You might also try "ccl:examples;query-replace.lisp". It's a little
- more like the normal EMACS replace & query-replace commands.
-