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changeset 45104:441493d3bba0
Clarify how replace-match does case conversion.
author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Sat, 04 May 2002 06:33:47 +0000 |
parents | 0fb0ba55467e |
children | f526d32944b1 |
files | lispref/searching.texi |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/searching.texi Sat May 04 02:45:09 2002 +0000 +++ b/lispref/searching.texi Sat May 04 06:33:47 2002 +0000 @@ -1209,15 +1209,15 @@ Then @code{replace-match} does the replacement by constructing and returning a new string. -If @var{fixedcase} is non-@code{nil}, then the case of the replacement -text is not changed; otherwise, the replacement text is converted to a -different case depending upon the capitalization of the text to be -replaced. If the original text is all upper case, the replacement text -is converted to upper case. If the first word of the original text is -capitalized, then the first word of the replacement text is capitalized. -If the original text contains just one word, and that word is a capital -letter, @code{replace-match} considers this a capitalized first word -rather than all upper case. +If @var{fixedcase} is non-@code{nil}, then @code{replace-match} uses +the replacement text without case conversion; otherwise, it converts +the replacement text depending upon the capitalization of the text to +be replaced. If the original text is all upper case, this converts +the replacement text to upper case. If all words of the original text +are capitalized, this capitalizes all the words of the replacement +text. If all the words are one-letter and they are all upper case, +they are treated as capitalized words rather than all-upper-case +words. If @var{literal} is non-@code{nil}, then @var{replacement} is inserted exactly as it is, the only alterations being case changes as needed. @@ -1241,6 +1241,9 @@ @samp{\\} stands for a single @samp{\} in the replacement text. @end table +These substitutions occur after case conversion, if any, +so the strings they substitute are never case-converted. + If @var{subexp} is non-@code{nil}, that says to replace just subexpression number @var{subexp} of the regexp that was matched, not the entire match. For example, after matching @samp{foo \(ba*r\)},