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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2023-08-17 10:07:48 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2023-08-17 10:07:48 +0300 |
| commit | 636fb267c46f62c89bc34b7de1c78a25c0b20f37 (patch) | |
| tree | b3a91d9dc4185530000a22b918afc8f312623656 /src | |
| parent | 7856d51436b759aa03ac2b32126d177cebbbca8c (diff) | |
| download | emacs-636fb267c46f62c89bc34b7de1c78a25c0b20f37.tar.gz | |
Improve documentation of case transfer in replacement commands
* doc/emacs/search.texi (Replacement and Lax Matches):
* src/search.c (Freplace_match):
* lisp/replace.el (query-replace, query-replace-regexp): Clarify
in the doc string and the manual how letter-case is transferred
from the replaced text to the replacement text. (Bug#65347)
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/search.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/search.c b/src/search.c index 0bb52c03eef..25c68f0788c 100644 --- a/src/search.c +++ b/src/search.c @@ -2359,7 +2359,9 @@ the replacement text. Otherwise, maybe capitalize the whole text, or maybe just word initials, based on the replaced text. If the replaced text has only capital letters and has at least one multiletter word, convert NEWTEXT to all caps. Otherwise if all words are capitalized -in the replaced text, capitalize each word in NEWTEXT. +in the replaced text, capitalize each word in NEWTEXT. Note that +what exactly is a word is determined by the syntax tables in effect +in the current buffer. If optional third arg LITERAL is non-nil, insert NEWTEXT literally. Otherwise treat `\\' as special: |