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Subject: Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp
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> Thanks; still, when combining several regexps into one, one needs to
> fixup backreferences.

Yup.  I actually have a local patch which fixes that by providing relative
backrefs (e.g. \-1 refers to the last group and \-2 to the one before that).


        Stefan