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

Previous Next

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.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Erik Anderson <erikbpanderson <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 15107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15107: [PATCH] Add replace-regexp-in-string regression test
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:01:12 +0300

> From: Erik Anderson <erikbpanderson <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:36:06 +0000
> Cc: 15107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Per the replace-regexp-in-string docstring: "Replace all matches for REGEXP with REP in STRING."

Yes, and there is a single match in this case, so a single
replacement.  The _entire_ input string matches the regexp, so after
that match there's nothing else left to match.

What am I missing?
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 170 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.