[Nano-devel] Re: Subexpression replacement.

[Chris Allegretta]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:06:25PM -0500, David Benbennick wrote:
> This patch replaces utils.c:strstrwrapper() and fixes
> search.c:replace_regexp() so that subexpression regexp replacement works. 
> For example, make a file with the line
> 
>  lookatthis
> 
> and put the cursor at the beginning of the line (a space).  Regexp
> search for "(look)(at)(this)", and replace with "\3\2\1".  It should
> produce the line
> 
>  thisatlook
> 
> Instead you get
> 
>  tthika loo

Credited and committed.  Thank you for this patch, for all of them
actually, this one looks like a particularly nasty bug to nail down.

Chris A
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