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changeset 65058:de7df04c6d6b
(replace-regexp-in-string): Doc fix.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:48:51 +0000 |
| parents | d92890473bd3 |
| children | 8bd0fdf7b9d1 |
| files | lisp/subr.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/subr.el Sat Aug 20 21:48:20 2005 +0000 +++ b/lisp/subr.el Sat Aug 20 21:48:51 2005 +0000 @@ -2167,9 +2167,10 @@ is non-nil, start replacements at that index in STRING. REP is either a string used as the NEWTEXT arg of `replace-match' or a -function. If it is a function it is applied to each match to generate -the replacement passed to `replace-match'; the match-data at this -point are such that match 0 is the function's argument. +function. If it is a function, it is called with the actual text of each +match, and its value is used as the replacement text. When REP is called, +the match-data are the result of matching REGEXP against a substring +of STRING. To replace only the first match (if any), make REGEXP match up to \\' and replace a sub-expression, e.g.