From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: return of replace-match
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:33:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878usq5684.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhwq6ljy.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:16:49 +0100")
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> 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.
Was my impression!
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-04 15:33 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
2014-03-04 15:33 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
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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