From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Possible bug in replace-regexp? Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:42:51 +0100 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195778445 4208 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2007 00:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 23 01:40:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IvMb3-0003ue-Jx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:40:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IvMap-00045y-Bs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:40:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!129.16.222.141.MISMATCH!gide.ita.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: remote1.student.chalmers.se Original-X-Trace: gide.ita.chalmers.se 1195774971 28676 129.16.29.79 (22 Nov 2007 23:42:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@gide.ita.chalmers.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ujK72SPjAIheq7QE0mhba/a0DaE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153986 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49417 Archived-At: Moira writes: > If my search contains a grouped quantor like this "myString\(.*?\)" a > C-q,C-j newline in the replacement is added *before* the groups > backreference, even if it's placed behind it. > Like in this replace: "myString\1[emacs C-q,C-j comes here]". *? is non-greedy. \1 is the empty string. -- Johan Bockgård