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Questions about editing or manipulating text inside of Emacs.

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Masking text / replacing a region with one character

I often find I want to "mask" text in a text file, such as overwriting a secret value in an example file. For example, I want to change SECRET_PASSWORD=123abc456 to SECRET_PASSWORD=XXXXXXXXX. I can't …
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