GNU bug report logs - #21995
Documentation omission for regular expressions

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jan <rtm443x <at> googlemail.com>

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:45:06 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: jan <rtm443x <at> googlemail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Documentation omission for regular expressions
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:16:59 +0000

Hi,
\& used as a replacement will substitute in the entire matched
pattern.  For example, given text

hello

and search regexp  \(.\)  with replacement  \&\&  you get

hheelloo

I have not been able to find this \& option in the regular expression
part of the emacs manual.

jan

(Emacs 24.5.1 running on Windows 2008 R2)
This bug report was last modified 9 years and 181 days ago.

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