From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: return of replace-match
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:16:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhwq6ljy.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87txbe58k7.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk
phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) writes:
> (progn
> (re-search-forward "bob")
> (replace-match "fred"))
>
> bob
>
> point gets moved to the end of "bob" (now "fred") but "nil" is returned.
> Am I doing something wrong?
I think the manual is just lying. If nobody disagrees, please make a
bug report.
Regards,
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-04 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-04 14:42 return of replace-match Phillip Lord
2014-03-04 15:16 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2014-03-04 15:33 ` Phillip Lord
2014-03-05 7:29 ` Alex Kost
2014-03-05 9:15 ` Bastien
2014-03-05 10:58 ` Phillip Lord
2014-03-05 11:11 ` Nicolas Richard
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