On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:33 AM, stefano franchi
<stefano.fran...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:30 AM, stefano franchi <
> stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Lyxers,
>>
>> I am trying out the new advanced search with regexes, and I cannot figure
>> out how to use backreferences in the replace part of the dialog.
>>
>> I am used to using \1 \2 etc. as back references to first match, second
>> match, etc., but if I try to replace dashes with en-dashes between numbers
>> with:
>>
>> Find: ([0-9])-([0-9])
>>
>> Replace: \1--\2
>>
>>
>> Lyx replaces the matched expressions with {\1--\2}.
>>
>> There must be something quite basic I am overlooking.
>>
>>
>>
> Indeed there was. It turns out you need to type the backslash twice to
> obtain a back-reference. Found out in the advanced search manual from the
> wiki (which Lyx 2Beta does not load, however. I had to compile the last
> development version to read it).
>
>
Weel, to put an end to this monologue: I was wrong. The last line of the
manual says: "The use of back references in the replaced text is not (yet)
implemented"
:-(
