Markers aren't updated with 'replace-match'

Markers aren't updated with 'replace-match'

[Matthias Habl]

In GNU Emacs 21.1.3 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2002-01-13 on mhilin

When replacing two matched substrings in series the markers of the
match data (available with (match-data)) aren't updated. In the
following example I want to replace "A" and "B" with "11" and "22"
respectively.

(defun test-replace-match ()
  (interactive)
  (when (re-search-forward "\\(A\\) and \\(B\\)")
    (replace-match "11" nil nil nil 1)
    (replace-match "22" nil nil nil 2)))

But when doing M-x test-replace-match at the beginning of the next
line

	Test string: A and B

the result is

	Test string: 11 and22B

instead of 'Test string: 11 and 22'.

Why does the match data consist of markers although these aren't
updated when using the function 'replace-match', which is used
most commonly after doing a RE search?

Matthias


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