GNU bug report logs - #15107
24.3; replace-regexp-in-string wrong on \`

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>

Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, patch

Merged with 44861

Found in versions 24.3, 25.1, 27.1

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Erik Anderson <erikbpanderson <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15107: [PATCH] Add replace-regexp-in-string regression test
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:36:06 +0000

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Per the replace-regexp-in-string docstring: "Replace all matches for REGEXP
with REP in STRING."

My email was a comment to an existing open bug from 2013-08-15:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15107

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:25 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Erik Anderson <erikbpanderson <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:57:35 +0000
> >
> > I can confirm the buggy behavior on emacs 24.5.1 and 25.1.50.1 for
> Kevin's example as well as:
> >
> > (replace-regexp-in-string "^.\\| ." #'upcase "foo bar")
> > > "Foo bar"  (should be "Foo Bar")
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see why this is a bug.  The
> input string "foo bar" matches the "^." alternative in its entirety,
> so there's no reason to expect Emacs to apply 'upcase' twice.
>

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