From: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: query-replace-regexp interactive replacement string
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:35:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimhHuAZKUcDuwEQYEY6jArjTvb97snz3xwLeqGx@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110303001137.514d10b1@bhishma.homelinux.net>
2011/3/3 Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:03:38 +0100
> Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2011/3/2 suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>:
>> > Hi Emacs users,
>> >
>> > I wanted to replace interactively all numbers in the text of an
>> > org-mode document with the number in words, so I tried:
>> >
>> > `C-M-% [0-9]+ RET \? RET'
>> >
>> > But this gives me an error like this:
>> > ...
>> >
>>
>> Weird, it doesn't work for me either. However, if I use
>> M-x replace-regexp it does work. In "(emacs) Regexp Replace" it also
>> mentions \?.
>>
>
> Thank you for looking into this, I can also confirm that it works for me
> with replace-regexp but not query-replace-regexp.
>
> Could it be a bug?
>
I'm by no means an expert on the subject, I didn't even know about the
"\?" feature, but now we're two people confused by the documentation
vs. the behavior. If it's not a functionality bug, it's a
documentation bug. Please file a report.
Thanks,
Deniz Dogan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-03 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-02 22:52 query-replace-regexp interactive replacement string suvayu ali
2011-03-03 8:03 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-03-03 8:11 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-03-03 8:35 ` Deniz Dogan [this message]
2011-03-03 9:14 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-03-03 8:39 ` Andreas Röhler
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