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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Message #8 received at 15107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Wright <wrightmikea <at> gmail.com>
To: 15107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15107: reproduced on emacs-25 branch
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 20:18:50 -0800

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Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au> writes:

> replace-regexp-in-string behaves incorrectly if a regexp has \` among
> its matches.
>
>     (replace-regexp-in-string "\\`\\|X" "Z" "--XX--" t t)
>     =>
>     "Z--ZXZX--"
>
> where I expected
>
>     "Z--ZZ--"
>
> This seems to be due to the optimization in replace-regexp-in-string
> which re-matches on the matched substring.  \' can match the substring
> where it did not match in the middle of the full string.  In the example
> above "X" is the match in the full string, but on taking that "X" as a
> substring it can match "\\`".

I built the emacs-25 git branch I recreated the above bug today.

GNU Emacs 25.0.92.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS appkit-1265.21 Version
10.9.5 (Build 13F1507))
 of 2016-03-05

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