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From: Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: regexp matches, but in some cases changes replace-match
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:13:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874nnxc1n0.fsf@hillenius.net> (raw)


I use the following function to put some basic html tags in a text. The
regexp matches all subheadings.

,----
| (defun subheading ()
|   (interactive) ;; interactive for testing purpose
|   (while (re-search-forward ".*[a-zA-Z':][\n]" nil t) (replace-match "<br />\n<strong>\\&</strong><br />" nil nil)))
`----

What I don't understand: when the subheading is a single word, the
replace-match changes to "<Br />\n<Strong>\\&</Strong><Br />" (the tags
get capitals). My regexp is, somehow, inprecise.


             reply	other threads:[~2012-08-20 10:13 UTC|newest]

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2012-08-20 10:13 Gijs Hillenius [this message]
2012-08-20 10:17 ` regexp matches, but in some cases changes replace-match Gijs Hillenius

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